How to Use wastewater in a Sentence

wastewater

noun
  • The Yale lab has been tracking wastewater since March 2020.
    — Jenna Carlesso, Hartford Courant, 14 June 2022
  • Surveys of wastewater in the Bay Area suggest this surge could be the biggest yet.
    — New York Times, 18 July 2022
  • Zoom in: Half of the 10 new odor monitors will be near the city's wastewater treatment plant.
    — Jason Clayworth, Axios, 17 Sep. 2024
  • 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
  • Your septic flow goes to the wastewater treatment plant.
    — Claire Thornton, USA TODAY, 15 Aug. 2021
  • 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
  • All this wastewater has so far been treated and stored in massive tanks.
    — Jessie Yeung, CNN, 21 Aug. 2023
  • Water is plumbed to a water heater and all wastewater runs to a sewer joint.
    — New Atlas, 8 Oct. 2024
  • The company has promised to re-treat the wastewater before it is released.
    — Pete McKenzie, New York Times, 30 Dec. 2022
  • Sponges and brushes made from plastic can shed microfibers into the wastewater stream (and end up in the ocean)—and the rest ends up in the landfill.
    — Melissa Breyer, Treehugger, 29 Aug. 2023
  • Coronavirus rates have risen at 38% of the hundreds of wastewater sampling sites tracked by the CDC over the last two weeks.
    — Robert Hart, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2022
  • 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 hearing was held as a part of the process for approving amendments to the farm's five-year wastewater permit.
    — Laura Schulte, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 25 Jan. 2022
  • This is on top of a surge in polio found in wastewater samples across London.
    — Ashwin Vasan, STAT, 10 Nov. 2022
  • So Van Tyne and her team looked to a source that’s teeming with gut bacteria: wastewater.
    — Emily Mullin, WIRED, 14 Feb. 2024
  • The city operates two large wastewater treatment plants that run 24 hours a day.
    — Paul Rogers, The Mercury News, 4 Mar. 2025
  • 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
  • The wastewater treatment plant was moved out of the water's reaches and all utilities were raised as much as 8 feet off the ground.
    — Laura Schulte, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 14 Aug. 2021
  • The scope of the state’s review also includes wastewater treatment plants and landfills.
    — Christine Condon, Baltimore Sun, 15 Feb. 2024
  • Health officials around the world have used wastewater to track covid-19 outbreaks.
    — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 1 Dec. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • Some years ago, he was asked to check out a wastewater treatment plant in New York that had become home to a breeding colony of pigeons.
    — New York Times, 23 June 2022
  • And levels of its genes in U.S. wastewater are an order of magnitude above last year.
    — Byjon Cohen, science.org, 13 Jan. 2025
  • Over the past three decades, the sewerage district has been able to capture and clean an average of 98.6% of wastewater.
    — Caitlin Looby, Journal Sentinel, 9 Apr. 2024
  • The city already has solar arrays at each of its wastewater treatment plants.
    — Stacy Ryburn, arkansasonline.com, 20 Dec. 2023
  • Yale was able to find private donations to continue the wastewater sampling at one of its sites in New Haven for the first half of 2022.
    — Andrew Brown, courant.com, 20 Jan. 2022
  • Not long ago, tracking the spread of a virus by sampling wastewater counted as a novelty in the United States.
    — Helen Ouyang, The Atlantic, 26 Aug. 2024
  • Meanwhile, the lack of a sewage system meant wastewater was being dumped directly into the bay.
    — Erik Ortiz, NBC news, 5 May 2025
  • That’s far behind the country’s driest two states: Nevada, which is recycling 85% of its wastewater, and Arizona, which is reusing 52%.
    — Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 3 Apr. 2025

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