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Sewerage vs Sanitation - What's the difference?

sewerage | sanitation |

As nouns the difference between sewerage and sanitation

is that sewerage is a sewer system while sanitation is the hygienic disposal or recycling of waste.

sewerage

English

Noun

  • A sewer system.

    • Quotations

    * 2010, India Today 5 Apr 17 *: About 3.6 billion tonnes of untreated sewerage flows daily into the Yamuna, which supplies over 60 percent of Delhi's water.

    sanitation

    English

    (wikipedia sanitation)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The hygienic disposal or recycling of waste.
  • The policy and practice of protecting health through hygienic measures.

    • Hypernyms

    * (policy and practice) public health

    Related terms

    * sanitarian * sanitary * sanitisation * sanitise * sanitization * sanitize

    See also

    * sewage * sewage treatment * microorganisms * disease * disinfection