How to Use wastewater in a Sentence

wastewater

noun
  • How does measles show up in wastewater?
    — Evan Moore, Charlotte Observer, 13 Jan. 2026
  • Off to the side was a room filled with spewing, brown wastewater.
    — Fiona Sinclair Scott, CNN Money, 9 May 2026
  • That doesn’t even account for wastewater needs.
    — Laura Runkle, Baltimore Sun, 12 Jan. 2026
  • All this wastewater has so far been treated and stored in massive tanks.
    — Jessie Yeung, CNN, 21 Aug. 2023
  • The fund gives grants and loans to cities and towns for work to improve wastewater treatment.
    — Justin Doughty, Hartford Courant, 19 July 2025
  • The main line into the wastewater plant is about 100 years old.
    — Jim Woods, Chicago Tribune, 17 Mar. 2026
  • Water is plumbed to a water heater and all wastewater runs to a sewer joint.
    — New Atlas, 8 Oct. 2024
  • But what if there was a process that could reclaim nitrogen and clean wastewater?
    — Chase Hunter, Mercury News, 28 June 2026
  • There was also a wastewater leak at the three-compartment sink.
    — Harriet Ramos, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 10 June 2026
  • The residue ends up in wastewater and in the environment.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 23 Feb. 2026
  • The city has been locked in lawsuits for the past five years over plans to expand its wastewater treatment plant.
    — Annie Blanks, San Antonio Express-News, 30 Nov. 2021
  • This is on top of a surge in polio found in wastewater samples across London.
    — Ashwin Vasan, STAT, 10 Nov. 2022
  • One such project will bury lines along 75th Street near the city’s wastewater treatment plant.
    — Judith Kohler, Denver Post, 10 Apr. 2026
  • The city already has solar arrays at each of its wastewater treatment plants.
    — Stacy Ryburn, arkansasonline.com, 20 Dec. 2023
  • The company has promised to re-treat the wastewater before it is released.
    — Pete McKenzie, New York Times, 30 Dec. 2022
  • Now, a new wastewater treatment system may help prevent them from building up in the first place.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Our wastewater management was lost, and there's no natural gas to the city.
    — Compiled Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 14 Dec. 2021
  • Our wastewater management was lost, and there’s no natural gas to the city.
    — Bruce Schreiner and Dylan Lovan, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Dec. 2021
  • The state has strict rules on the amount of phosphorus that can be discharged from wastewater treatment plants.
    — Madeline Heim, Journal Sentinel, 7 Apr. 2023
  • The city operates two large wastewater treatment plants that run 24 hours a day.
    — Paul Rogers, The Mercury News, 4 Mar. 2025
  • Once in landfills or wastewater treatment plants, that waste breaks down and emits greenhouse gases.
    — Melissa Fleur Afshar, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2025
  • This led the crew to discover that a major 42-inch wastewater line had failed.
    — Rachel Raposas, PEOPLE, 7 Jan. 2026
  • The team wants to reduce wastewater residence time from 16 hours to about ten hours.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 18 Dec. 2025
  • Brooks has to retrieve cows that slip through the barbed wire fence around the site and chew the wells’ rusting metal and drink wastewater.
    — Mark Olalde, ProPublica, 6 May 2024
  • An overnight wastewater dump seemed to cut off too early, as if the line were clogged with ice due to the cold environment.
    — Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 4 Apr. 2026
  • One tool that can be used to assess how much the virus is spreading in a community is to test the wastewater.
    — Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press, 18 June 2024
  • Huge volumes of wastewater poured from the ground for months at a time starting in 2021.
    — Nick Bowlin, ProPublica, 17 Mar. 2026
  • The plant can process more than 5 million gallons of wastewater and stormwater daily.
    — Laura Groch, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 July 2021
  • Now, a wastewater marsh must do the ecological heavy lifting.
    — Brandon Loomis, AZCentral.com, 15 Dec. 2025
  • All of that drilling produces hundreds of billions of gallons of toxic wastewater each year.
    — Katie Campbell, ProPublica, 2 June 2026

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