effluent

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As effluent becomes higher and higher in quality, the challenge will become deciding who gets to use it.

From Slate • May 26, 2025

But many questions remain: Where would the effluent from a PCH sewer be treated?

From Los Angeles Times • May 11, 2025

In 1994, she successfully advocated for “zero discharge” agreements from Formosa and the aluminum manufacturer Alcoa to stop liquid effluent pollution.

From Salon • Dec. 5, 2024

The new study is unusual in that it calculated the mass of microplastics in landfill leachate and wastewater influent and effluent.

From Science Daily • Nov. 19, 2024

The effluent glacier seems to run on a long curve westerly up to the Gobrin plateau.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin