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Answer for the clue "Municipal waste ", 6 letters:
sewage

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Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A suspension of water and solid waste, transported by sewers to be disposed of or processed. 2 (context obsolete English) sewerage.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1818, from sew (v.) "to drain, draw off water" (late 15c., from sewer (n.1)) + -age .

Usage examples of sewage.

Byzantine-Romanesque surprise which was heaped in bulbiferous pyramids atop the Hill of the Martyrs in the late nineteenth century, soon after the city had finished installing a comprehensive new sewage systen.

To the right of the walkway was the drainage way that carried the sewage, the surface of the turbid waters another cubit or so below the walkway.

Driven to desperate measures and wading through sewage with his trousers rolled up, Mr Grabble had seized on the idea of using caustic soda.

S-cubes, moongems, boxes of organic dirt, bars of niobium, tanks of helium, vats of sewage, feely tapes, intelligent prosthetics, carboys of water, and cheap mecco novelties of every description.

Time For Celtic Pamplemousse Spewing opinions like a busted sewage pipe!

Fire-engines are called to the sewage works where water is leaking in from the direction of Tilbury Fort.

With the loss of Tilbury sewage works, a quarter of a million residents in the Thurrock area are left without lavatories or drinking water.

But when Twing read that the excrementitious matters produced by each individual may amount to an annual quantity equal to one ton in weight, and that the other matters included under house sewage may amount to a similar quantity, and amount in total thus of two tons per annum, for every individual of the population, he knew he was on to a winner.

And the centuries-old division between India and Pakistan like a severed limb the refugees breaking down all attempts at organization finally the water-table under the city hopelessly poisoned by sewage mass eruptions of disease scampering mesolithic men crouching in their cave exchanging illnesses viruses use mankind as walking cities.

It domed springily over our dreg-bottomed coffee cups, revealing in the hidden space behind it the limp multicolored spaghetti of the utilities piping: gas, water, metered syntho-milk, sewage, coaxed TV, med-mist, Musik, robo-talk, robo-juice, tele, vele, elec, gelec, and such.

When he came out the air was crisp, stinking of the usual city stink of sewage but unfouled by the smudges of the plague fires.

In French peasants we have driven sewage carts over our hectares, estimating the unsown crop, and the cost, and the sowing.

Claudia replaced the sewage bucket in the corner, and when the wardress pointed at her wrists, she held them out obediently.

The hills surrounding Drake Field were in the full lush greenery of late springtime, and the air was the fragrant Bodarks ozone that is found nowhere else on earth, but he sniffed it as if it came from a sewage plant, and he looked around disdainfully at his surroundings until his eyes came to rest on me, and he gave me a look as if sizing me up for the casting couch and finding me not worthy of it.

She pressed close to the window and pushed her face into one of the open panes, taking deep breaths to dispel the aromas of the cabin, though the smell of the harbor was no great improvement, rife as it was with the smell of dead fish, sewage, and baking mud.