[
US
/ˈɛfɫuənt/
]
[ UK /ˈɛfluːənt/ ]
[ UK /ˈɛfluːənt/ ]
NOUN
- water mixed with waste matter
ADJECTIVE
- that is flowing outward
How To Use effluent In A Sentence
- The roots of the reeds contain naturally occurring bacteria which transform toxic elements contained in factory effluent, into benign substances.
- Noise rose from below like effluent from a blocked toilet and the light was so dim the waitress had to check the reservation book with a torch. Restaurant review: Platform
- In future it will be necessary to pump this effluent, to aerate it and de-water surplus sludge from the treatment process.
- Plus an unpleasant whiff of effluent as in the previous week's remorseless attacks on Cherie Blair, not for anything she's said or done but for the way she looks.
- A watercourse viewed primarily as an effluent carrier will be thought better able to tolerate further pollution.
- A group of girls presented a project on water pollution and expressed concern over the effluent discharge into river and how it had affected the marine life.
- Substantial investment programmes in information technology and new effluent treatment plant to meet the latest regulatory requirements were also initiated.
- Excessive acidity and osmotic pressure in the gastric effluent can also retard emptying.
- He said that the company, which admitted one count of discharging effluent, took environmental issues seriously.
- It's probably feasible to treat and store water from effluent for well under a dollar a kilolitre.