The word "sewage" is correct and usable in written English.
It is usually used when referring to the waste water, solid waste, or some other material that has been flushed or drained away. For example, "The city has set up a sewage treatment plant to reduce the environmental impact of the sewage being released into the river."
Jezebel, the popular women's website, has posted a story, describing in lingering detail, the much-feared-but-never-spoken-of experience of forgetting to remove a tampon (after 10 days it smelled of "rotting fish meets sewage meets Black Death").
Some of the worst-hit regions in 2005 lay along the Mithi River, a waterway clogged by silt, plastic and sewage that runs through the thickly populated and industrial areas of the city before draining into the Arabian Sea.
The most obvious dangers to favela residents include" health risks from the overflow of inadequate sewage systems; an outbreak of dengue fever in the city from mosquitoes that breed in standing water; and the high risk, due to the tightly packed wooden constructions, of fire.
"Everything from city cleaning to the sewage system, the airport, railway stations, military... should all be under your control," Vladimir Makovich, one of the leaders, told the group.
Most sewage from the camps was collected by trucks and dumped untreated in lagoons at a waste site only metres from the sea, or anywhere out of sight.
Because the city's slumdwellers have little space, no money and no right to the land they live on, there is no chance of a conventional sewage system being built – certainly nothing to match the one in the richer part of Mumbai that was constructed by the Victorians in the 1860s.
Some say a faulty sprinkler was to blame, but it's also been claimed that the flood was caused by a burst sewage pipe.
On the computer and in a stack of scrapbooks beside her, Cunha – watched by her 13-year-old daughter Yasmim – flips through photos and cuttings of community actions, including a series of protests residents held last year to pressure the prefeitura – city hall – to provide them with what it has long promised: formal, conventional water, sewage and electricity provision.
A Chicago area water authority released millions of gallons of storm runoff and sewage into Lake Michigan to relieve tunnels and reservoirs, the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago said.
London has Europe's highest concentration of cocaine in sewage, research shows.
Apart from that my main training place is Lee Valley but the issue with that, especially in the summer, is that there's a sewage treatment plant which can make the recovery breathes quite nasty, to say the least!
