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pink water

pink water

9.0
Dirty water from meat or chicken factories that is pink and needs treatment
  • noun
  • Specialized
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  • The factory must treat all pink water before releasing it into the environment.

Examples

  • Strict regulations require regular testing of pink water from food-processing plants.

  • Technicians monitor the color and composition of pink water to ensure proper treatment.

  • The factory produced a lot of pink water during processing.

  • They found pink waters near the meat processing plant.

  • The factory must treat all pink water before releasing it into the environment.

  • Strict regulations require regular testing of pink water from food-processing plants.

  • Technicians monitor the color and composition of pink water to ensure proper treatment.

How Contaminated

pink water
  • Specialized
9.0
wastewater
  • Specialized
19 3.4
clean water
42 1.0

Surface Forms

pink water singular
pink waters plural

Morphology

pink + water

The phrase 'pink water' is directly and transparently derived from 'pink' (a pale red color) modifying 'water' (a body of water), so it simply denotes water that appears pink. This adjective + noun composition is cross-linguistically common and does not require knowledge of the biological or mineral causes, so a B1 learner who knows both words will understand the meaning.

Etymology

Pink water is what workers called water from meat or poultry plants when it turned pink with blood and bits of tissue. That's why the term means 'wastewater from food-processing plants that needs treatment'.