An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
SEWERAGE
sewer, sewerage, cloaca
(noun) a waste pipe that carries away sewage or surface water
sewage, sewerage
(noun) waste matter carried away in sewers or drains
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
sewerage (countable and uncountable, plural sewerages)
A sewer system.
Misspelling of sewage.
Source: Wiktionary
Sew"er*age, n.
1. The construction of a sewer or sewers.
2. The system of sewers in a city, town, etc.; the general drainage of a city or town by means of sewers.
3. The material collected in, and discharged by, sewers. [In this sense sewage is preferable and common.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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