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The term drainage is used with recurrence in three different contexts.

In medicine, the procedure is called drainage through which fluids and other substances that are secreted by wounds or any of the body's organs are extracted.. But also, in this same context, the term is used to refer to those elements that allow to carry out the described procedure, such as tubes, gauze.

Meanwhile, in another area, Geology, that is called drainage method that is used with the objective of drying a certain land through the job underground conduits. Then, a drainage network, as the technique, consists of that transport surface, such as lakes, rivers, which will feed with the rain or with the snow once it has melted and then it will permeabilize those upper layers of a land, constituting more then streams.

And on the other hand, to instances of town planning and of the engineering, a drainage will be a network of interconnected pipes through which the corresponding evacuation of rain liquids or of any other type will be carried out.

In this sense, we can find two types: storm drainage (moves the Water of rain so that it can be reused and something fundamental: prevent cities from flooding) and the sanitary drainage (drives the waste liquids from houses to treatment plants that will take care of completing the hydrological cycle, giving these liquids a treatment so that after this phase they are dumped back into a riverbed of water.