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wastewater
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waste·wa·ter  (wsttr, -wtr)
n.
Water that has been used, as for washing, flushing, or in a manufacturing process, and so contains waste products; sewage.
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Noun1.wastewater - water mixed with waste matterwastewater - water mixed with waste matter        
waste, waste material, waste matter, waste product - any materials unused and rejected as worthless or unwanted; "they collect the waste once a week"; "much of the waste material is carried off in the sewers"
sewage, sewerage - waste matter carried away in sewers or drains


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The coastal aquifer, Gaza's sole fresh water resource, is polluted by the infiltration of raw sewage from cesspits and sewage collection ponds and by the infiltration of sea water (itself also contaminated by raw sewage discharged daily into the sea near the coast) and has been degraded by over-extraction," Amnesty said.
From late afternoon until around 6pm, heavy rain inundated the sewer system and raw sewage was spewed on to the streets.
He added: "I would like to stress that we have not dumped raw sewage in the loch or the streams.
 
 
 
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