Common Effluent Treatment Plant (CETP)

Water quality: Unclogging the Khari river

This case study reports on how the various stakeholders came together to alleviate the problem of effluents discharged by factories in the industrial estates on the eastern periphery of Ahmedabad into the Kharicut canal that flows into the Khari, a tributary of the Sabarmati.

Publication Date:

18/02/2006

Author(s): Srinivas Mudrakartha, Jatin Sheth, J Srinath

Source: Economic and Political Weekly

Vol:

41

Issue:

7

pp:

587

Tags:

Water Pollution, River Pollution, Land Pollution, Sabarmati, Health Effects, Industrial Pollution, Textile Industry, Khari, Irrigation, High Court, Gujarat, Ahmedabad (D), Common Effluent Treatment Plant (CETP)

Environment

Bhopal in slow motion

India

Publication Date:

01/09/2005

Author(s): Stan Cox

Source: Synthesis/Regeneration

Vol:

0

Issue:

38

pp:

1

Tags:

Environment, Land Pollution, Health Effects, Industrial Pollution, Cancer, Andhra Pradesh, Toxic Wastes, Common Effluent Treatment Plant (CETP), Water Pollution

Industry

Towards a dirty Yamuna

Industries, government, ignore apex court committee s proposals for effluent treatment

Publication Date:

29/11/2004

Author(s): Suresh Babu S V

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

River Pollution, Industrial Dispersal, Yamuna, Supreme Court, Governance, Delhi, Common Effluent Treatment Plant (CETP)

Health

State of community health at Medak district

This health study was undertaken to estimate the impact of pollution on the health of the community at Medak. Its findings show that there is an overwhelming increase in most types of systemic diseases across the study group, as compared to the control group at Medak District.

Publication Date:

01/10/2004

Source: Greenpeace India

Tags:

Health Effects, Industrial Pollution, Health, Drug Industry, Andhra Pradesh, Medak, Diseases, Common Effluent Treatment Plant (CETP)

Agriculture

CETP standoff

Upward revision in cost of effluent treatment plants resented

Publication Date:

29/04/2004

Author(s): Vikas Parashar

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Industrial Dispersal, Legislation, Supreme Court, Delhi, Common Effluent Treatment Plant (CETP)

India

Coping with waste

Common effluent treatment plants are fashionable, but without a proper framework of rights and responsibilities, they could become a tool for circumventing the law

Publication Date:

14/01/2003

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

11

Issue:

20030115

pp:

0

Tags:

Pollution, Pollution Control, Industrial Dispersal, Leather Industry, Waste Treatment, Small Scale Industry, Technology, Supreme Court, NGO, Greenpeace, India, Andhra Pradesh, Delhi, Gujarat, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Waste Recycling, Common Effluent Treatment Plant (CETP)

Water Pollution

Destroying waterbodies

a move to solve one problem, is creating another one for the Andhra Pradesh government. The Supreme Court had ordered the state governments to dispose off effluents without contaminating any

Publication Date:

29/04/2001

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Water Pollution, River Pollution, Musi, Supreme Court, Andhra Pradesh, Common Effluent Treatment Plant (CETP)

India

Master plan for anarchy

The judgement to relocate polluting factories in Delhi leaves several questions unanswered. Will the powers-who-be work to turn good intentions into right actions?

Publication Date:

30/12/2000

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Urban Development, Workers, Hazardous Industry, HI Relocation, Legislation, Supreme Court, Public Participation, Governance, Delhi, Common Effluent Treatment Plant (CETP)

Water Pollution

Performance evaluation of the common effluent treatment plant for tanneries at Pammal - Pallavaram Tamil Nadu (India)

The data on flow, BOD, COD, TSS and TDS were collected from the common effluent treatment plant (CETP) for the period from June '96 to November '96. The data were analysed to assess the performance of the CETP in terms of removal efficiency for the above mentioned parameters. The original design of individual units in the CETP were scrutinized for their authenticity.

Publication Date:

01/11/2000

Author(s): S. Shanmugasundaram, D. V. S. Murthy

Source: Bioprocess and Biosystems Engineering

Vol:

23

Issue:

5

pp:

431

Tags:

Common Effluent Treatment Plant (CETP), Tamil Nadu, Biological Oxygen Demand (BOD), Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD), Water Pollution, Leather Industry, Industrial Waste Treatment