Definition of EFFLUENT

Examples of effluent in a Sentence

Noun

The factory has been accused of discharging effluent into the river.

Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective

In violation of Kenyan environmental and human rights law, the factory's smelting process would emit fumes, dust, and effluent laden with lead particles, according to a 2015 report by the Ministry of Health. — Deborah Bloom, CNN, "The woman risking her life to save a village from lead poisoning," 20 Apr. 2018 This method evaluates the cost of providing recycled water by only including the costs in excess of those incurred for secondary wastewater treatment and borne as a cost of effluent disposal. — Julie Gallant, Ramona Sentinel, "Directors raise recycled water rates to reflect cost," 11 Apr. 2018

Recent Examples on the Web: Noun

These stains had the look of overflowing effluent, rotted in the sun and impervious to power washing. — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, "The Star Wars Park Is a Space-Junk Fantasy," 5 June 2019 The most serious infractions revealed in the audit include plants that exceed the volume and quality of fish-processing effluent discharged to open water allowed under the permits. — Anchorage Daily News, "Audit finds 70 percent of British Columbia fish-processing plants do not comply with environmental regulations," 8 July 2018 The videographer, Tavish Campbell, spokesman for Wild First, is an opponent of open-net-pen salmon farms and contends the effluent is harmful to wild salmon. — Anchorage Daily News, "Audit finds 70 percent of British Columbia fish-processing plants do not comply with environmental regulations," 8 July 2018 Years of poorly controlled antibiotic use in humans and animals, combined with effluent from the local drug industry that turned lakes and streams into breeding grounds for resistance, has left India with few weapons to fight infection. — Ari Altstedter, Bloomberg.com, "The Startups Waging War Against Superbugs," 25 June 2018 The practice involves housing thousands of hogs together, flushing their waste into holding pits, allowing bacteria to break down the material, then spraying the effluent onto fields with agricultural spray guns. — Fox News, "Hog farm's neighbors awarded $50M after suing over smells, spraying," 3 June 2018 Faucets are running dry and the lakes that once nurtured the southern city of Bangalore and its nearly 10 million residents are either parched or fetid with industrial waste and toxic effluents. — Washington Post, "Water mismanagement leaves India’s Silicon Valley parched," 16 May 2018 Wastewater from this service area is conveyed to the San Vicente Water Reclamation Plant for treatment and effluent disposal as part of the district’s sewer service. — Julie Gallant, Ramona Sentinel, "Directors raise recycled water rates to reflect cost," 11 Apr. 2018 In reaching their conclusion, the study authors compared effluent — which is wastewater that is sent into rivers and other natural bodies of water — from 13 treatment plants that took pharmaceutical discharges and six plants that did not. — Ed Silverman, STAT, "Pharmaceutical manufacturing plants are sending lots of medicine into the water supply," 23 May 2018

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