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sewage  

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  • Sewage comprises the wastewaters deliberately contained, collected, and evacuated by a community, including both household and industrial wastes as well as surface runoff. There are many ways to dispose of or utilize human excreta, but in a real sense, human waste does not become “sewage” until collected by some type of sanitary technology such as a latrine or sewer, however simple. [Source: Encyclopedia of Consumption and Waste: The Social Science of Garbage; Sewage]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-XFTS40TT-N

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