Sentence examples for sewage up from inspiring English sources

So the International Committee for the Red Cross is helping to build two pits for the overflow, but pumps are needed to get the sewage up to the pits, which are not yet built.

In addition to sewage, up to eight billion gallons of "grey water" from sinks and showers gets dumped overboard every year, Keever said.

We're in a decommissioned pumping room that used to work to surge the sewage up towards the surface so it could start to descend again, and it seems haunted by the ghosts of the turds that came before it.

"Now the sewage backs up, the park is locked, the school is closed.

Whenever sewage backs up, waste pours into the basement and trickles into the wards.

"The sewage is up to our necks already — whatever you do, don't make waves".

They say that for a time, potholes went unrepaired and sewage backed up at the main ski lodge.

A century ago, it was common for food to come into contact with human sewage, picking up germs.

A few feet away, dirty dishes filled the kitchen sink, and the smell of sewage wafted up from a floor drain.

The polio virus spreads through feces, and contamination occurs more often when sewage backs up during the rainy season in Africa and Asia.

Sewage backs up into basements—or worse, the fat hardens, and a chunk breaks off and rides the pipe until it jams the machinery of a floodgate.