effluent
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Pure Water Southern California is projected to cost $8 billion and produce up to 150 million gallons of drinking water daily by purifying treated effluent that is now discharged into the ocean.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 10, 2025
Some rivers that have been boosted with effluent have led to the transformation of both the natural and human landscape.
From Slate • May 26, 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
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