The phrase "sewage drain" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a system or channel that carries away wastewater and sewage.
Example: "The city is investing in upgrading the sewage drain to prevent overflow during heavy rains."
Alternatives: "wastewater drain" or "sewage outlet."
In the back, a bucket serves as a toilet bowl; a piece of cardboard covers an open sewage drain.
NOWPORA JAGIR, India — On the day he was killed, Mohammad Shafiq Teli was working on a new sewage drain, precisely the sort of unglamorous, if essential, project that village governance is supposed to provide.
Harris mentioned the sewage drain that is the river Yamuna, widespread open defecation, shoddy construction that caused sewage to mix with freshwater piped to his house, and congested traffic.
The water is dirty and opaque, so each step requires concentration, to make sure that you have sure footing and aren't stepping in, say, a sewage drain that's missing its manhole cover.
A nightmare could only be the origin of Hartmut Meyer's set depicting the family home: an abstract structure with a gently rising walkway around the rear of the stage and two large circular openings like sewage drain pipes, which are sometimes mysteriously plugged with giant spheres; a similar opening, leading downward from the stage floor, serves, among other things, as a repository for bodies.
The first scene of the movie shows a little kid drop his new paper boat into a sewage drain.
But a significant amount ends up in the sea, swept there via rivers or sewage drains, discarded on beaches or dumped from ships.
Although his family had clean drinking water, the man often walked naked through town to bathe and drink from the Latem River just downstream from the Meye River, into which raw sewage drained from an encampment of United Nations peacekeepers from Nepal.
The ramshackle structure was roofed in corrugated metal and threaded by open sewage drains, with women in Band-Aid-strip panties gyrating on bird-cage platforms under the red neon glow of a giant map of Africa.
A stomach-churning report Tuesday in The China Daily pointed to the difficulty of identifying the illegal oil as well as some of the reasons why it could harm Chinese consumers and embarrass restaurants: Gutter oil, or illegally recycled cooking oil, is often scooped up from sewage drains and gutters behind cooking establishments and then sold to small restaurants.
From the crumbling bridges of California to the overflowing sewage drains of Houston and the rusting railroad tracks in the Northeast Corridor, decaying infrastructure is all around us, and the consequences are so familiar that we barely notice them — like urban traffic congestion, slow-moving trains, and flights that are often disrupted, thanks to an outdated air-traffic-control system.
