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die Kloake (-n)
   cesspool (fig./lit.), sewer; cloaca (zool.)

Mehr als 80 Millionen Kubikmeter stinkender Kloake ergießen sich jeden Tag aus dem ganzen Gazastreifen ungeklärt ins Mittelmeer.
More than 80 million cubic meters of stinking sewers pour untreated from the entire Gaza Strip into the Mediterranean every day.
Während das BP-Öl den Golf von Mexiko zu einer stinkenden, braunen Kloake macht, pflügte Hayward als Miteigner der 15-Meter-Jacht „Bob“ durch die glitzernden blauen Wellen des Solent.
While BP oil is turning the Gulf of Mexico into a stinking, brown cesspool, Hayward, as co-owner of the 15-meter yacht Bob, was plowing through the glistening blue waves of the Solent [strait].
Lange galt die Emscher als „Kloake des Ruhrgebiets“.
The Emscher [river] has long been considered the “sewer of the Ruhr region.”

Related:
die Kanalisation sewer(s), sewer system
der Kloakenjournalismus gutter journalism
die Kloakentiere monotremes (Monotremata, mammals that lay eggs)

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