Sentence examples for disposing of sewage from inspiring English sources

In the most devastating finding, Crouch's team found that a month after the cholera outbreak, more than one in 10 of the UN camps were still disposing of sewage – known as "black water" – "directly into local environment".

Clark's dark first novel, set in the sewers of Victorian London, alternates between the stories of two men: William May, a Crimean War veteran who has been sent home to help engineer a more effective sewer system; and a scavenger called Long Arm Tom, whose life's work has lain not in disposing of sewage but in making the most of it.

This means disposing of sewage sludge by spraying it over public lands, including parks, and also on an untold number of acres of farmland where our food is grown.

The Worldwatch Institute reports that landfills are overflowing and the costs of disposing of sewage and garbage is rising.

He goes on to describe their roles in Victorian London and provides the reader with an intimate feel for local life, notably the travails of getting water and disposing of sewage.

Currently, the need to dispose of sewage locally acts as a brake on development that might threaten water quality.

They need safe ways to dispose of sewage and shelter for when the rains worsen and cause streets and rivers to flood and cholera cases to spike.

Mr. Bogaerts notes that the hotels dispose of sewage through deep injection wells, which deposit human waste 70 to 100 feet underground.

The County Board of Acquisition and Contract has authorized spending $22.6 million to dispose of sewage sludge at its Ossining plant next to the Hudson River.

An original integrated drying and incineration technique is proposed to dispose of sewage sludge with moisture content of about 80% in a circulating fluidized bed.

The authors of the review alerted the UN leadership that the failure to dispose of sewage safely at a time when the cholera epidemic was raging "will potentially damage the reputation of the mission".