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aguas servidas

English translation: sewage


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Spanish term or phrase:aguas servidas
English translation:sewage
Entered by: Dennis Wright
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07:40 Jun 13, 2004
Spanish to English translations [PRO]
Tourism & Travel / environmental study
Spanish term or phrase: aguas servidas
... se contempla el diseño de las obras civiles requeridas para la construcción de estaciones de bombeo de aguas servidas, ubicadas en ...
Dennis Wright
Local time: 17:26
sewage waters
Explanation:
sewage waters
or just sewage
Selected response from:

franliaci
Argentina
Local time: 13:26
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Summary of answers provided
3 +5wastewaterCarolynB
5 +3sewage waters
franliaci
4 +2waste waters, residual waters
Francis MARC
4sewagebiblios


  

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17 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
waste waters, residual waters


Explanation:
Ref. Termium:
omaine(s)
  – Water Pollution
Domaine(s)
  – Pollution de l'eau
Domaine(s)
  – Contaminación del agua
waste water Source CORRECT

wastewater Source CORRECT

residual water Source

eau résiduaire Source CORRECT,
FÉM

eau résiduelle Source FÉM

agua residual Source CORRECT,
FÉM

agua servida Source FÉM

agua negra Source CORRECT, FÉM

OBS – Eau rejetée après usage.
On distingue les eaux
domestiques, les eaux agricoles et
les eaux industrielles. Source

DEF – Agua de abastecimiento de
una población después de haber
sido impurificada por diversos
usos. Source

CONT – Desde el punto de vista de
su origen, las aguas residuales
resultan de la combinación de los
líquidos o desechos arrastrados
por el agua, procedentes de las
casas de habitación, edificios
comerciales e instituciones, junto
con las provenientes de los
establecimientos industriales, y las
aguas subterráneas, superficiales
o de precipitación que puedan
agregarse. Source


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Note added at 19 mins (2004-06-13 08:00:02 GMT)
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... provenientes de plantas de tratamiento de aguas servidas para estimular ... soil; petroleum;
residual sludge; biodegradation; residual waters; land reclammation. ...
www.redpav-fpolar.info.ve/agrotrop/v45_4/v454a040.html - 30k -
Archivos de medicina veterinaria - <I>Leptospirosis. The waters ... - [ Traduire cette page ]
... The wasted waters had a high positiveness by dark field examination, but ... de cerdas lactantes y filtro purificador, completando el muestreo con aguas servidas. ...
www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext& pid=S0301-732X2002000100008&lng=en&nrm=iso - 66k

Francis MARC
Local time: 19:26
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench

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agree  Nanny Wintjens
1 hr

agree  Ltemes
13 hrs
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23 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +3
sewage waters


Explanation:
sewage waters
or just sewage

franliaci
Argentina
Local time: 13:26
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish
PRO pts in category: 4
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thanks

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  cmwilliams: sewage - in both Collins and Oxford Spanish dictionaries
3 hrs
  -> Thank you :-)

neutral  CarolynB: forgive my ignorance, but I always thought that aguas servidas / wastewater included water used for washing (trucks, trains, equipment, yards and even dishes etc) , rather merely sewage, which I thought meant bathroom wastes.
5 hrs
  -> Thank you :-)

agree  klausie: or just sewage... As you mentioned!
10 hrs
  -> Thank you :-)

agree  Javiera
437 days
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40 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +5
wastewater


Explanation:
I suggest one word rather than two, and in the generic singluar

The United States Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Wastewater Management (OWM) oversees a range of programs ....

CarolynB
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Henry Hinds: We've seen a lot of it go down the drain.
6 hrs

agree  Refugio
7 hrs

agree  Maricel Dietrich
9 hrs

agree  Javiera
437 days

agree  Nikki Graham
1236 days
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1 day5 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
sewage


Explanation:
Based on my personal experience and you can find it in: Glosario Internacional para el Traductor/Marina Orellana

biblios
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