Sewage Effluent: Examples

Sewage Effluent is created by residential, institutional, commercial, and industrial waste entering the water system. The waste can come from toliets, baths, showers, kitchen sinks, anywhere that water is made unsanitary. This waste is distributed to the sewage system where it is seperated into grey and black water. Grey water can be recycled for toliet water and watering plants. Some sewage systems also include rain sewages, called combined sewage. The grease and oil that lifts off the road is distributed into these sewages. When waste is being discarded, it can be mixed into the normal water supply, such as the ocean. This effluent normally goes to the bottom of the ocean, on the floor, and it is stuck there. Removing sewage and reusing sewage in clean sanitary ways, are examples of sewage effluent.