sewerage

[ US /ˈsuɝɪdʒ/ ]
[ UK /sˈuːəɹɪd‍ʒ/ ]
NOUN
  1. a waste pipe that carries away sewage or surface water
  2. waste matter carried away in sewers or drains
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How To Use sewerage In A Sentence

  • It will also be used for the provision of small public water and sewerage schemes in smaller towns and villages.
  • Mamelodi; to improve on the provision of services such as sewerage and waste removal, as well as water reticulation. ANC Daily News Briefing
  • Roads and bridges, public utilities such as sewerage, buildings and machinery, schools, hospitals and power supplies have all been severely damaged in the disaster area. Australian Assistance for Fiji Flooding Disaster
  • The antiseptic properties of large-scale tea drinking may have brought the sewerage conditions within controllable limits. All about Tea
  • Hargreaves says there are new ways of delivering water and sewerage services to increase efficiencies.
  • There were also doubts about the ability of the current sewerage system to cope with more foul water and concern over the loss of recreational space.
  • Fifty-eight per cent of homes have electricity and water supply and are linked to the sewerage system.
  • Some make a greater concession; they admit that disagreeable or unhealthy work -- such as sewerage -- could be paid for at a higher rate than agreeable work. The Conquest of Bread
  • The Government did not want to see households which paid for water suffer ... (and) a suspension held the danger in that it could also cause damage to infrastructures such as sewerage," Dr ANC Daily News Briefing
  • The pollution of a stream as regards fish by a one hundred ton pulp mill is equivalent to the pollution thereof from domestic sewerage from a city of the population of one hundred and sixty thousand people. The National Importance of the Salmon Industry
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