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What is sewage? In which way can sewage be harmful to us?

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Sewage is the municipal waste-water collected from city or townhomes, that contains toilet, bathroom and kitchen waste.

It contains large amounts of organic matter and many pathogenic microbes which are harmful to humans as they can cause many diseases like cholera, typhoid, polio.


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