The chemical companies are poisoning our rivers with effluent. 这些化学公司排出废水污染著我们的河流。
A certain discharge of possible radioactive effluent. 一定量的可能有放射性的废水。
Dangerous effluent is being poured into our rivers. 有害的废水正流入我们的江河里。
effluent
[ noun ]
water mixed with waste matter
<noun.substance> [ adj ]
that is flowing outward
<adj.all>
Effluent \Ef"flu*ent\, a. [L. effluens, -entis, p. pr. of effluere to flow out; ex + fluere to flow: cf. F. effluent. See {Fluent}.] Flowing out; as, effluent beams. --Parnell.
Effluent \Ef"flu*ent\, n. (Geog.) A stream that flows out of another stream or lake.
Officials say more than 90 per cent of the city's effluent is dumped untreated into the Bosporus or the Sea of Marmara.
The largest of the projects, valued at Pounds 900,000, is at Sittingbourne where the company will upgrade and extend an existing effluent plant at Kemsley Paper Mill.
The next stage will come with the new generation of pulp mills, which will have almost totally enclosed water systems and minimal effluent when they start production in the second half of the decade.
The options include an environmental 'code of ethics', with compliance signified by a stamp on Canadian products. Criticism of the Canadian companies centres on their tree-cutting practices and on the toxic effluent produced by pulp mills.
It faces pressure from Greenpeace, the environmental group, to make an example of ICI by imposing immediate heavy cuts in its Tees effluent discharges.
The EPA's work usually involves regulating pollutants discharged outdoors by smokestacks or effluent pipes.
On land, the worst effects of industrial effluent have been curbed by new laws. During the last quarter of a century, Greenpeace achieved extraordinary success in changing the relationship between advanced industrial societies and the natural world.
Unless local protest forces a climb-down, that idyllic vista will soon be interrupted by a chemical factory pumping 100,000 gallons of treated effluent into the Womanagh river every day, and by an incinerator chimney 80 feet high.
Rhone-Poulenc has promised to halve its effluent and solid wastes by 1995 and and cut them by 65 per cent by the year 2000.