Her hands and arms were red and dripping and from a dim region at the rear came the smell of dishwater.
Now a house does not look very beautiful when it has dust and crumbs on the floor, buckets of greasy dishwater in the kitchen, and smoke from the furnace in the air!
Steel knives and forks with ivory or wooden handles should not be put into dishwater.
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Of the 172dishwatersamples, 157 samples (91 %) were contaminated.
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We also collected 139 drinking water samples from the 149 vendors who offered drinking water to customers, and 172dishwatersamples.
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Our study also demonstrated that the use of detergent was effective in reducing the bacterial numbers indishwater.
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We are here dealing with pleasure craft, in which a certain amount of washing-up water ordishwateris necessarily used.
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Sumps are used to dispose of dirtydishwater.
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The first types of wastewater legally allowed into the storm sewers weredishwaterand other kitchen wastes.
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Instead, the discharge is often described as sweetly putrid ordishwaterpus because it is much thinner than normal pus.
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The clothes were washed in the sink; the water used to wash the floor went down the sink, and so it made sense to separate thedishwaterfrom the sink.
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