"effluent" is a word that is accepted and used in written English.
It is a noun that refers to liquid waste products, usually from industrial or domestic sources. You can use it in any sentence where this meaning is relevant. For example, "The coastal area was polluted by the factory's effluent runoff."
A statement by the Malawi government, which is investigating the fish kill, says the mine had never released effluent into the environment from its storage facilities.
Bunge's Brazilian pig-farmers are making CERs out of their animals' effluent.
EVERY year the average sow and her piglets produce 9.2 tonnes of carbon-dioxide equivalent through the methane emissions from their effluent.
Bunge, an agricultural-commodities business based in America, builds lined and enclosed pools to collect the effluent and captures the methane that it emits.
People clean up their environment in ways that help other species: through building sewage-treatment plants, for instance, and banning factories from pouring effluent into rivers.
In 2000, a hacker named Vitek Boden broke into the computers of an Australian sewage plant and leaked raw effluent into rivers and parks, killing fish but no people.
In addition, both developed and developing countries generate vast quantities of construction and demolition debris, industrial effluent, mine tailings, sewage residue and agricultural waste.
The sources of this problem range from smokestacks through Amazonian deforestation to pig effluent; from Mexico to Mauritania.
Other places on the institute's list included La Oroya, Peru, where poorly managed effluent from 80 years of mining and smelting has left local children with three times more lead in their blood than the World Health Organisation's recommended maximum; and Dzerzhinsk, Russia, where 300,000 tonnes of chemical waste were disposed of haphazardly, mostly in Soviet times.
A clean-up programme designed primarily to benefit people was good for other species too.Even after sewage treatment had become widespread, rivers were still being poisoned by industrial effluent and pesticides.
Studies which show that effluent from the plants would be within international norms were biased, they claim.The protesters cannot stop the plants, but they can continue to hurt Uruguay's small economy.
