raw sewage
Untreated human waste
Raw sewage is untreated wastewater—human waste, household drainage, and industrial discharge before any processing or purification.
The adjective raw distinguishes it from sewage that has passed through treatment facilities.
Raw sewage carries pathogens and contaminants, making its presence a public health concern: Raw sewage flowed into the river after the pipe burst.
- untreatedNot given care
- waste pipeConduit for wastewater
- storm drainStreet-level runoff collector
- sludgeSemi-solid waste material
- fecal matterSolid intestinal waste
effluent · wastewater · biosolids · leachate · septic systems · septic tanks · drainage systems · health hazard · pathogens · waterborne disease · water pollution · beach closure · pollution control · cesspit · E. coli · night soil · biofiltration
- filthdirt, grime, dirty, filthy, muck
- hazardsfire hazard, fire hazards, toxin, contamination, tripping hazard
- undrinkablecontaminated water, toxic water, industrial waste, chemical runoff, bleach
- sewage systemswastewater, septic tank, treatment plants, pumping station, pumping stations
- wastewaterwastewater, effluent, treatment plants, blackwater, greywater
- fecal-oral diseasescholera, typhoid, norovirus, rotavirus, shigellosis
raw sewagepure water
Uncontaminated H₂O
clean water · potable water · drinking water · purified water · distilled water
raw, sewage, rawer, rawest, rawly, rawness, sew, sewer, sewers