Assertion: sewage's bacteria | /r/CapableOf | use oxygen
Facets:
value: in decomposing it
type: TEMPORAL
value: in the water
type: LOCATION
value: to metabolize the sewage
type: PURPOSE
Source sentences:
text: Bacteria and other organisms in freshwater use oxygen to metabolize the sewage they accompany.
text: Bacteria use up oxygen in the water as they decompose the organic material in the wastewater, and the resulting lack of oxygen in the water kills the fish.
text: Such chemicals are used to obtain maximum yields, but when the algae die the bacteria uses up all of the oxygen in decomposing it, thus creating an oxygen dead (or hypoxic)