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Recent Examples of effluent
Managing effluent is one of the hardest parts of traditional hemp processing; but Panda’s process sidesteps that entirely.
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Kasi Martin, Sourcing Journal, 9 July 2025
But many questions remain: Where would the effluent from a PCH sewer be treated?
—James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2025
In the summer of 2023 millions of residents of New York City and other metropolises saw dark-orange daytime skies thick with smoke palls from Canadian wildfires—and breathed in the effluent.
—Stephen Pyne, Scientific American, 16 Apr. 2024
After industrial effluent polluted the lake, the seawall was reopened to flush the pollution out.
—IEEE Spectrum, 19 June 2013
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Kasi Martin, Sourcing Journal, 9 July 2025
But many questions remain: Where would the effluent from a PCH sewer be treated?
—James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2025
In the summer of 2023 millions of residents of New York City and other metropolises saw dark-orange daytime skies thick with smoke palls from Canadian wildfires—and breathed in the effluent.
—Stephen Pyne, Scientific American, 16 Apr. 2024
After industrial effluent polluted the lake, the seawall was reopened to flush the pollution out.
—IEEE Spectrum, 19 June 2013
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for effluent
distributary
Noun
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Delhi gets its water from the Yamuna river, while Kolkata uses water from the Hooghly river, a distributary of the Ganga.—
Sanjana Venkatesan,
Quartz India,
2 July 2019
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By the 1950s, scientists noticed the consequences: more water was going down the Atchafalaya River, a distributary of the Mississippi.—
Boyce Upholt,
Time,
9 May 2019
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“Effluent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/effluent. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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