(n.) A small tortricid moth whose larva sews together the edges of a leaf by means of silk; as, the apple-leaf sewer (Phoxopteris nubeculana)
(n.) A drain or passage to carry off water and filth under ground; a subterraneous channel, particularly in cities.
(n.) Formerly, an upper servant, or household officer, who set on and removed the dishes at a feast, and who also brought water for the hands of the guests.
Example Sentences:
(1) After visiting the H-blocks, the Catholic archbishop Cardinal Tomás Ó Fiaich compared the conditions to "the sewer pipes in the slums of Calcutta".
(2) Christmas 2013 caused 2,635 sewer blockages in Yorkshire alone.
(3) Soon, reformers known as “sanitarians” focused their attention on replacing the haphazard and unsanitary plumbing arrangements in homes and workplaces with technologically advanced public sewer systems.
(4) But nothing has been done about the stinking open sewers that run through the densely packed community and overflow whenever there is heavy rain.
(5) The use of self-topping aqua privies, discharging through sewers to oxidation ponds, has made possible the economic installation of water-carriage systems of waste disposal in low-cost high-density housing areas.In the oxidation ponds, typhoid bacteria appear to be more resistant than indicator organisms; helminths, cysts and ova settle out; there are no snails and, if peripheral vegetation is removed, mosquitos will not breed.
(6) Although the efficiency of the method was influenced by the composition and source of the sediments it was used successfully to detect viruses occurring in marine and freshwater sediments near sewer outfalls.
(7) In general, there is an improvement in chlorination, sewers and sewage-depuration equipment.
(8) Fatbergs build up on sewer roofs like mushy stalactites.
(9) In common usage, “myth” is at best the word we use to refer to amusingly preposterous urban legends – tales about albino alligators in the Manhattan sewers or the Holy Grail’s hiding place under the floor of a Paris shopping mall.
(10) No demographic risk factors were associated with the incidence of this disease including population density, median family income, crowding in housing units, percentage of households with public water supply, and percentage of households with public sewers.
(11) The apparent sources of these organisms were a residential storm sewer and a University of Wisconsin Experimental Farms' washwater drain.
(12) • Wipes, nappies, sanitary towels, rags and condoms do not break down easily and can snag on pipes, drains and the walls of sewers, leading to blockages.
(13) Inspection of the pool revealed significant plumbing defects which had allowed ingress of sewage from the main sewer into the circulating pool water.
(14) Paint and pesticides were disposed of by 10% of the households, but were dumped on the ground sewer or landfills more than 90% of the time.
(15) "So you've got open sewers, and shared toilets out in the open.
(16) Animals near the Los Angeles County sewer outfall contain over 45 times as much tDDT as animals near major agricultural drainage areas.
(17) But that’s for the future – a vast concrete sewer that may well be serviced by robots, or even drones.
(18) The effluent open sewer, situated in the north suburban district, drives into the sea the content of three maximum sewers that recollect domiciliary branches.
(19) They believed they wanted to take control and believed Britain would be better off … These kind of awful things are done by a minority who come from the sewers who want to exploit division and have their own racist agenda.” Map Halfon, who backed remain, added: “All of us need to stand up for tolerance and kindness and against any kind of division.” Police in Harlow have been given the power to order anyone involved in crime or harassment to leave The Stow.
(20) The effective energetic expenditure during a work shift was from 659 to 1020 kcal for weavers, from 740 to 1000 kcal for spinners and from 522 to 1105 kcal for sewers, which points to an uncomparable load at monomial workplaces equipped with different machines.
Sewerage
Definition:
(n.) The construction of a sewer or sewers.
(n.) The system of sewers in a city, town, etc.; the general drainage of a city or town by means of sewers.
(n.) The material collected in, and discharged by, sewers.
Example Sentences:
(1) It will be a slow process to ensure everything is in place, such as ensuring there is consistent fresh drinking water and a sewerage system, but they lived there very happily before.
(2) However, no countermeasures for this have been developed, nor has any system for the measurement of the H2S held in sewerage water and sludge been established yet.
(3) Compensation may not last, and too much reliance on it shifts the risk of reform to people who are least able to bear it.” Australians need to pay higher indirect taxes to fund welfare, KPMG says Read more The welfare lobby group commissioned the National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling (Natsem) to quantify the impact of various policy shifts on different possible changes: A straight increase in the GST from 10% to 15%, which would raise an extra $29bn a year, costing the poorest families 7% of their disposable income and the richest 3.6% Extending the GST to fresh food, which raise an additional $7.1bn a year, costing the lowest-income families 2% of their disposable income (about $537 a year) and the richest families 0.6% (about $937 a year) Extending the GST to fresh food, education, health and water and sewerage, raising $18.6bn a year and costing 4.6% of the disposable incomes of the poorest ($1,199 a year) and 6.6% of the richest ($2,904).
(4) The term is used to refer to removing salt from both seawater and subterranean “brackish” water, as well as the treatment of waste water (aka sewerage) to make it drinkable.
(5) To change this picture we need many more water supply and sewerage systems, better food preparation and handling, and public comprehension of how elementary good hygiene promotes good health.
(6) The World Bank can still fund major projects like Lagos, but it must drop its ideological commitment to privatisation “In the last five years the failure rate of water and sewerage privatisations has increased to 34%, compared with a failure rate of just 6% for energy, 3% for telecommunications and 7% for transportation, during the same period”, said Anna Lapp é , director of the Small Planet Institute.
(7) Rio de Janeiro state authorities promised to complete sewerage infrastructure near the Marina da Gloria by the end of this year and are making progress.
(8) These particles are now found in abundance across the world’s oceans, and are often common in shallow coastal areas, where they wash in from waste dumps and sewerage systems.
(9) At an airport forum held in the same hall where Gough Whitlam promised better sewerage for western Sydney in 1972, residents objected to the quality of information being served to them about the second airport.
(10) Recently, an entire summer’s worth of rain fell in one morning on Detroit, overwhelming its outdated sewerage systems.
(11) South West Water, which supplies 700,000 customers with drinking water and sewerage services in Devon and Cornwall, said it was on course to deliver an effective operational performance despite the "exceptional weather".
(12) Thames Water has agreed to buy half the electricity to run London's largest sewerage works at Beckton.
(13) Vibrio cholerae, El Tor Ogawa, was isolated from two patients, the Guam sewerage system, and a river emptying into Agana Bay.
(14) The water regulator carries out five-year reviews for companies that provide water and sewerage services.
(15) The changes, which will be set out in detail in spring by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, apply to all economic regulators including Ofgem for electricity and gas, Ofwat for water and sewerage, the Civil Aviation Authority and the Office of Rail Regulation.
(16) The programme was set up to encourage Greece to leave the euro and that plan didn’t work, so now we are stuck with the privatisation arrangement that nobody, not even the original creditors, ever intended to happen.” Up for sale Helliniko Olympic complex Ports of Piraeus and Thessaloniki 14 regional airports PPC power company, including ADMIE, the electricity transmission operator DEPA natural gas company Hellenic Petroleum Hellenic Post Athens Water Supply and Sewerage Company Xenia Hotels in Rhodes Marinas of Chios, Pylos and other locations Source: Hellenic Republic Asset Development Fund
(17) For example, the average unmetered household water and sewerage bill is around £380.
(18) While several outcomes had improved, those for incarceration and juvenile detention, suicide and self-harm, mental health and access to basic services such as clean water, functioning sewerage and electricity, have gone backwards.
(19) It’s not about coal.” Rumin says he has customers whose homes lack running water or sewerage pipes.
(20) Further, in 1990, 99% of urban households had electricity, 95% a piped water supply, and 89% a sewerage system.