noun. A form of water treatment in which water is pumped backwards through the filter media, sometimes with intermittent use of compressed air.

"Downtown Houston probably high enough to not get a lot of this backwashing water so to speak coming up the ship channel, but, Anderson, there could be 10 inches of rainfall there in Harris County, and that could cause flooding with freshwater."

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