wastewater
noun
waste·wa·ter
ˈwāst-ˌwȯ-tər 
-ˌwä-
: water that has been used (as in a manufacturing process) : sewage
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Wolfe agreed that there is still a lot the field of wastewater epidemiology has to learn about how to interpret the kind of H5-specific data that WastewaterSCAN will soon be collecting.
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Megan Molteni, STAT, 22 May 2024
But it’s been difficult to correlate symptoms of bacterial illness with nearby wastewater releases.
—Tammy Murga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 May 2024
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Megan Molteni, STAT, 22 May 2024
But it’s been difficult to correlate symptoms of bacterial illness with nearby wastewater releases.
—Tammy Murga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 May 2024
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“Wastewater.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wastewater. Accessed 28 May. 2024.
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