Difference between Sewage and Sewerage

What is the difference between Sewage and Sewerage?

Sewage as a noun is a suspension of liquid and solid waste, and water runoff, transported by sewers to be disposed of or processed. while Sewerage as a noun is a sewer system.

Sewage

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A suspension of liquid and solid waste, and water runoff, transported by sewers to be disposed of or processed. (Obsolete usage) sewerage.

Example sentence: Nineteenth-century English literature I know; 19th-century sewage systems, not so much.

Sewerage

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A sewer system.A common solecism for sewage.

We hope you now know whether to use Sewage or Sewerage in your sentence.

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