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Sewage facts for kids

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Raw sewage arriving at a sewage treatment plant in Syria

Sewage is the liquid waste produced by us all when using the toilet, having a bath or shower or washing clothes and dishes. In some places it also includes rain-water falling on houses and roads. In big towns and cities it can also have liquid waste from factories in it. It flows in pipes called sewers to be cleaned up at a sewage treatment works.

Sewage is mostly water but it also has many microbes some of which can be harmful. It can have many chemicals in it which can also cause harm to animals and humans.

Images for kids

  • Pumping station lifting the wastewater (6908385151)

    Pumping station lifting sewage to the treatment plant in Bujumbura, Burundi

  • Greywater settling tank and grease trap (3109542163)

    Greywater (a component of sewage) in a settling tank

  • Screening of the wastewater to remove larger objects. (6845984661)

    Screening of the sewage with bar screens at a sewage treatment plant to remove larger objects in Norton, Zimbabwe

  • Screen (6619766435)

    Screening of sewage at a sewage treatment plant in Bujumbura, Burundi

  • Wastewater in street (informal settlement near Cape Town), South Africa (2937833876)

    Lack of maintenance is causing sewage to overflow from a manhole into the street of an informal settlement near Cape Town, South Africa.

  • FEMA - 42863 - Outfall tubes in Ocean City beach

    Ocean outfall pipes in Cape May, New Jersey, United States – pipes exposed after the sand was removed by severe storm

See also

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