N2669/1725

下げ水すい

nounnoun (generic)

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げすい

Meanings

drainage, ditch, gutter, sewerage
sewage, black water

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Example sentences

この地域ちいきの下水げすいシステムは老朽化ろうきゅうかが進すすんでいる。

The sewerage system in this area is deteriorating.

大雨おおあめで下水げすいが溢あふれ、道路どうろが水浸みずびたしになった。

Heavy rain caused the drainage to overflow, flooding the roads.

下水げすい処理場しょりじょうでは汚水おすいを浄化じょうかして川かわに放流ほうりゅうしている。

At the sewage treatment plant, wastewater is purified before being discharged into the river.

工場こうじょうからの廃液はいえきが下水げすいに流ながれ込こみ、環境汚染かんきょうおせんを引ひき起おこした。

Wastewater from the factory flowed into the sewage and caused environmental pollution.

都市としの下水げすい管かんの整備せいびは、公衆衛生こうしゅうえいせいを維持いじするうえで欠かかせない基盤きばんである。

The maintenance of urban sewer pipes is an indispensable foundation for preserving public health.

Related words

潜るもぐる

to dive (into or under water); to get under, to get into, to get in, to creep into, to crawl under, to bury oneself, to burrow into, to dig oneself into, to snuggle under; to hide oneself (esp. from the government), to conceal oneself, to go underground

上下じょうげ

top and bottom, high and low, above and below, upper and lower ends, up and down; going up and down, rising and falling, fluctuating; going and coming back; upper and lower classes, ruler and ruled, the government and the people; first and second volumes; top and bottom, two-piece (outfit)

突くつく

to prick, to stab; to poke, to prod, to push, to thrust, to nudge, to hit, to strike; to use (a cane), to prop oneself up with, to press against (the floor, etc.); to attack; to brave (the rain, etc.)