(n.) A cistern in the course, or the termination, of a drain, to collect sedimentary or superfluous matter; a privy vault; any receptacle of filth.
Example Sentences:
(1) They are mainly represented by latrines, where Anjouan ethnic group is predominent; by cesspools in localities inhabited by Sakalava (a Malagasian ethnic group) and by other latrines and cesspools in mahoraises (inhabitants of Mayotte) and cosmopolitan localities.
(2) Unlike Iceland, where the government let misbehaving banks fail and talented kids became less interested in leaping into the cesspool of finance, in New York there has been no public rejection of the culture that led to the financial crisis.
(3) A tiny number of officers trained to degree-standard qualifications "vanish into the cesspool" of an unreformed system, according to one US army police trainer.
(4) In rural areas, the percentage of habitations with cesspools usually increases with the size of the villages.
(5) The sanitation aides assisted in drawing plans and selecting building, cesspool, and well sites.
(6) These emptied into unsanitary cesspools and privy vaults generally located beneath or adjacent to the factory.
(7) A cesspool of misery next to a world of growing prosperity is both terrible for those in the cesspool and dangerous for those who live next to it.
(8) Instead of immediately assuming ballot selfies will send our political system deeper into the cesspool of corruption, couldn’t we marshal the allure of social sharing for collective good?
(9) The north-west of Bosnia and the Drina Valley in which the worst atrocities occurred remain cesspools of the hatred that led to the slaughter; a crazed, nonsensical mixture of justification and denial which suggests that, given a fair wind, the communities for whom Mladic is a hero would do it all again.
(10) Slowly, we walk through the groundfloor, most of it knee-deep in water you wouldn't want to touch: "Everyone's on cesspool drainage round here," says Steve.
(11) The breeding-sites of C. p. fatigans are either man-made (latrines, cesspools, various containers), or natural (polluted water of estuaries of some rivers).
(12) He added that it had been very difficult at Myspace to keep up with "offensive" photos; without that control, a social network "turns into a cesspool that no one wants to visit … sorta like Myspace was".
(13) Not far from the beautiful beaches, hip suburbs and great cuisine that saw it recently named the world's top tourist destination by one website , women in Khayelitsha could be seen last week drawing water from a communal tap near cesspools strewn with rubbish.
(14) The Hollywood Reporter’s Todd McCarthy called it “a lively and legitimate way to tackle urgent subject matter that other film-makers have found excuses to avoid”, while Variety’s Justin Chang named it “a sprawling, blistering state-of-the-union address that presents Chicago’s South Side as a cesspool of black-on-black violence.” The plot is loosely based on Greek comedy Lysistrata and follows women going on a sex strike in an attempt to stop the increasing gun violence in the city.
(15) North Korea has now threatened to attack “the White House, the Pentagon and the whole US mainland, the cesspool of terrorism” should such action occur.
(16) In many cases lack of street paving, insufficient water, proliferating cesspools and open sewers turned them into cloying, degrading and offensive mires.
(17) The social network can be a cesspool for talking about race , but I was so incensed over the grand jury decision not to indict Darren Wilson this week and I needed to know: Why did my white friends avoid talking about race ?
Sewage
Definition:
(n.) The contents of a sewer or drain; refuse liquids or matter carried off by sewers
(n.) Sewerage, 2.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Hamilton-Wentworth regional health department was asked by one of its municipalities to determine whether the present water supply and sewage disposal methods used in a community without piped water and regional sewage disposal posed a threat to the health of its residents.
(2) Results in this preliminary study demonstrate the need to evaluate the hazard of microbial aerosols generated by sewage treatment plants similar to the one studied.
(3) A clinical investigation was made between workers exposed to dried sewage sludge dust and age matched controls not exposed.
(4) Also purple sulfur bacteria lowered BOD levels as demonstrated by the growth of T. floridana in sterilized sewage.
(5) Distribution of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB) in sewage wastes at a municipal sewage treatment plant was studied, showing that the great bulk of PCBs entering such a treatment plant become adsorbed onto the grit chamber solids and the sludge that is passed from the anaerobic digesters.
(6) Aggregated virus was not dispersed by one-step dilution (7,000-fold) in distilled or untreated lake water but was dispersed if phosphate-buffered saline or clarified secondary sewage plant effluent was used as diluent.
(7) Acanthamoeba culbertsoni was isolated from a sewage-spoil dump site near Ambrose Light, New York Bight.
(8) This procedure has demonstrated that the routine methods for sewage collection, specimen treatment, and virus isolation permit virus detection when 5--10% of this virus excretors are available.
(9) Neither the stock cultures nor the aquatic strains were capable of growth in autoclaved river water taken above the sewage outfall at the three temperatures tested.
(10) It got a D in Sewage treatment, an F in air pollution and provided no information on water treatment.
(11) And it is a perfect testimony to the fact that a highly evolved economic area such as ours can produce equally high environmental standards.” The EEA noted a “marked improvement” over recent decades in measurements of two bacteria, E coli and intestinal enterococci, which indicate faecal contamination of swimming waters by sewage and animals.
(12) Salmonella contamination of swine and morbidity rates among the workers of swine-breeding complexes and the members of their families, as well as among the population inhabiting the zone of possible influence rendered by such complexes on the environment, have been studied as exemplified by 4 complexes for large-scale swine breeding, differing in their technology of swine raising and fattening, their systems of the purification and utilization of manure-containing sewage.
(13) Using zoospore capture technique, 361 colonies of aquatic freshwater fungi were recovered from sewage effluents, out of which 341 reached sexual maturity.
(14) At present it is not possible to quantify the effects attributed to acid rain only; account must be also be taken of cadmium added to, e.g., soil by use of sewage sludge and other fertilizers.
(15) The El Tor vibrios survived for 12 to 24 days in experimentally contaminated sewage water, and for up to 10 days in sewage-contaminated soil.
(16) The book lets you know how sewage gets around under the city streets and how aluminium is made (you have to get bauxite from Jamaica, then ship it to a place with lots of electricity, like the Pacific north west).
(17) One strain showing high optimum range of sulfide tolerance (up to 9 mM) produced more hydrogen in 80% sewage while the less sulfide tolerating strain (up to 6 mM) showed hydrogen photoproduction in 60% sewage.
(18) Most pollution of drinking water is caused by inadequacy of the uptake and distribution systems, by insufficient upkeep of the sewage system and by defects or breaks in the disinfection processes.
(19) In the study area, Cu and Zn emanate from sewage and boat slips (antifouling paints), while Zn probably also originates from coolant water from an electricity power generating station and iron ore exporting facilities.
(20) The transformation and toxicity of trichlorophenols (TCPs) were studied with a methanogenic enrichment culture derived from sewage sludge.