Liquid industrial waste

Usage examples of effluent.

They cry and they crow and they make false images to mirror their imaginary affections, as if the effluent of their tiny minds could alter the course of aeonic destiny.

Gobi saw that the Bangladeshis had perfected a technique for packing the energy effluents into long, sausage-shaped containers that they wore around their necks and down their backs.

Felix was sitting slumped on one of the wooden chairs, his legs out in front of him, soft boots stained with mud and effluent from the gutters that ran down the centre of most of the smaller streets.

Down near the place where the Wanderelle valley ended and the river flowed out onto the coastal plain, she and Ezratah had another violent argument--this time over the filthy effluent of the upstream woolworks, which emptied into the river.

It was around this time that Matthew became really conscious of the danger of the river water, for it was into this that the effluent flowed, that cattle paddled and went to drink, that cats and dogs were thrown, and it was from this also that most of the hamlets and the villages drew their water supplies.

Leia was showing Isolder the oro woods of Alderaanforests where the graceful, clean-limbed trees climbed hundreds of feet into the air, but every inch of the trees' bark was covered with iridescent lichen colonies that glimmered in colors of cinnabar, violet, and canarylike the effluent of rainbows.

Plagued with flies and dragonlice and the reek of city effluent in summer, greyed with smog and ice in winter, even the foulest factories turn their backs away.

Maybe she'd like the San Juan Guayama and Ybucoa areas of Puerto Rico where Commonwealth Oil, Union Carbide, Phillips Petroleum, and Sun Oil have created another new industrial wasteland where the toxic wastes have killed the vegetation, where hot oil effluents are discharged into the sea and flow westward along the shoreline in a black roiling stench, killing all sea life.

Carpets of red algae, the produce of sewage, fertilizer and effluent from cows, pigs and industrial waste, are, at times, visible along certain parts of the coast, while the dead fish and molluscs, starved by these algae of oxygen, are washed up onto the shore.

And secondly, sure you can come with me, if you don't mind crawling through the septic tank and up nine metres of effluent pipe.

From there tidal currents swept the putrid effluent into the Atlantic and out over the endangered offshore reef.