Sentence examples for rather than sewage from inspiring English sources

However, as the majority of isolated Campylobacter strains were identical, we believe other detected pathogens in the stool samples represent sporadic cases and the contamination was most likely caused by a livestock source or bird excrements rather than sewage.

Eduardo Pacheco Jordão, a professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, is less inclined to blame the savelha, though he agrees the problem is historic and organic rather than recent and sewage-related.

Most studies looking at linkages between sewage and coral reefs focused on identifying indicators of sewage presence and intensity, rather than on the actual impacts of sewage on coral reef constituents, the general untested assumption being that sewage had a negative impact, and so should be monitored and abated.

Four experts argued that measures to ensure clean hands and good hygiene after using the toilet was paramount rather than the type of sewage disposal system.

A notable exception to this pattern, the large cluster of SARS cases outside a healthcare setting in the Amoy Gardens apartment complex in Hong Kong, seems to have spread through aerosolization of virus-laden sewage rather than direct person-to-person contact (30 ).

Critics said the agency still considers the river to be an industrial waterway and sewage conduit rather than a venue for strolling, rowing, fishing and even swimming.

Ambiguous responses indicated effects of natural inputs of organic matter rather than environmental quality associated to sewage.

In Greece, in many cities, wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) operate their own anaerobic digestion (AD) facility in order to treat sewage sludge rather than achieve optimum biogas production.

However, the PCDD/F fingerprints found there point to the Bitterfeld region rather than to impacts from both sewage dumping [43].

Investigations made in this field in Iran have mostly been concerned with vermicomposting outsourced waste materials such as animal dung, industrial and agricultural wastes, and municipal sewage sludge rather than domestic waste and, thus, have not contributed to a shift in the structure of solid waste management systems.

The current Trump phenomenon began with a conspiracy theory — "birtherism" being the precise right-wing equivalent of "truthism," albeit ladled over with the sewage of racism, rather than the paranoia of government plots.