Reclaiming

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The word reclaim or reclaiming can refer to :

• Reclaimed word, a word whose connotations have changed from pejorative to acceptable
• Regional Clean Air Incentives Market (RECLAIM), an emissions trading program in California
• Reclaiming (Neopaganism), a Pagan earth-based spirituality movement

Reclamation

Reclamation is the process of reclaiming something from loss or from a less useful condition. It is generally used of water reclamation, which, a century ago meant damming streams (thus the US Bureau of Reclamation owning dams), and now has come to be used to describe wastewater reclamation.

• Land reclamation
• Mine reclamation
• River reclamation
• Water reclamation

See also

• United States Bureau of Reclamation

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