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sanitation

sa nuh tay shuhn

  • n  the state of being clean and conducive to health
  • n  making something sanitary (free of germs) as by sterilizing

  • For New York City's 8,000,000 ad versity-tempered citizens, the sanitation workers' strike was merely a nuisance at first.
  • Ecological sanitation, as this call to arms is known in toilet circles, is already up and running in many spots around the world.
  • According to the estimates of one sanitation specialist George cites, each of the 2.
News & Articles

  • NV sanitation workers recognized on Garbage Man's Day
    On Monday, sanitation workers in southern Nevada were recognized on National Garbage Man's Day. They are the unsung heroes of municipal cleanliness.
    June 18, 2013 - FOX 12 Oregon
  • American Standard Partners with WaterAid to Provide Global Sanitation Solutions
    PISCATAWAY, N.J., June 18, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- A new partnership between American Standard Brands and WaterAid seeks to save lives and improve access to safe sanitation in Bangladesh. Through their joint ...
    June 18, 2013 - PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance
  • Video: Fact-Checking Heated Sanitation Department Locker Room Banter
    In Picking Up, a book about the Sanitation Department, Robin Nagle describes DSNY locker rooms as loud, profane, and sometimes bawdy (think: photos of naked ladies taped to the locker doors). Upon walking into one Nagle is greeted by one san man yelling at his partner: "You cocksucking motherfucker, don't you ever do that again!" We've found a more substantive, if equally colorful Sanitation ...
    June 17, 2013 - Gothamist
Quotes

  • Helen Suzman in Washington Post
    Masses of black people are very disappointed with lack of delivery of housing, water and sanitation,Suzman said, although she praised the post-apartheid government for successes in economic policy and other areas.
  • Tony Blair in Yemen News Agency
    As for service ventures in the making in the Gaza Strip, Blair said "the number of projects to improve health, education, water and sanitation facilities that have received approval in the last few days has increased, and should continue to grow."
  • Kevin De Cock in Forbes
    It did feel a bit peculiar to be investing so much money into anti-retrovirals while the people there were dealing with huge problems like water and sanitation,De Cock said.

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