sewerage

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Recent Examples of sewerage The prices of water and sewerage meanwhile added 26.1% in the month to April, marking the largest monthly hike since at least February 1988, the ONS said. Holly Ellyatt, CNBC, 25 May 2025 Cupertino imposes one-time fees on property developers to offset the financial impact their new development will have on public infrastructure, including roads, water and sewerage among other services. Stephanie Lam, The Mercury News, 28 Feb. 2025 During his tenure, Walled Lake got city water and sewerage, expanded police services, built a fire hall and department of public works building, doubled its population, experienced a housing boom, extended Maple Road and paved all of its streets. M.l. Elrick, Detroit Free Press, 5 Dec. 2024 What happened: The problem in Orleans Parish was tied to power outages that brought down pumps at one of the city's two sewerage pumping stations, Korban said. Chelsea Brasted, Axios, 12 Sep. 2024 See All Example Sentences for sewerage
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sewerage
Noun
  • Its water and sanitation systems have stopped functioning, and sewage has become backed up into the streets.
    Kara Fox, CNN Money, 19 Oct. 2025
  • For instance, in the Florida Keys, the discovery that a bacterium found in human wastewater was behind white pox disease in elkhorn coral led to sewage system upgrades.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 17 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • That includes farmers who have had sludge from water treatment plants spread on their land containing PFAS, fire departments, airports and municipalities, people who own land that was polluted by PFAS originating from another nearby property or waste facilities that accepted PFAS.
    Laura Schulte, jsonline.com, 17 Oct. 2025
  • After Netflix’s Adolescence directed mainstream attention to the toxic sludge awaiting young men online, Rekt drives the point home in the most disturbing ways.
    Neil McRobert, Vulture, 16 Oct. 2025

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“Sewerage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sewerage. Accessed 23 Oct. 2025.

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