wastewater

noun

waste·​wa·​ter ˈwāst-ˌwȯ-tər 

-ˌwä-

: water that has been used (as in a manufacturing process) : sewage

Examples of wastewater in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The purifiers are part of the county’s effort to provide temporary relief to South Bay residents exposed to hydrogen sulfide from the polluted waterway while the United States and Mexico work to address infrastructure failures at a transboundary wastewater treatment facility. —Walker Armstrong, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 June 2026

Boston Public Health will also track the city's wastewater for any potential infectious diseases. —Anna Meiler, CBS News, 4 June 2026

Preparing for the World Cup has involved scaling up existing programs, such as wastewater monitoring, and adding new tools to track infectious disease threats. —Annika Kim Constantino, CNBC, 4 June 2026

McEachern also presented the city’s proposal to restrict the noise from data centers, and a plan to regulate both the wastewater generated by data centers and the water that the developments would use. —Emily Holshouser, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 June 2026

Word History

First Known Use

15th century, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for wastewater

• imprimatur
• underwater
• auteur
• blotter
• cotter
• daughter
• hotter
• mater
• otter
• plotter
• rotter
• slaughter