Industries based in Punjab are discharging toxic and persistent waste into fertile croplands, rivers, and groundwater sources due non-availability of wastewater treatment facilities. It is obvious that wastewater treatment facilities are too expensive for the most individual units to afford.
Links:
[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/news/government-promote-use-cetps-punjab-industrial-estates-adb-report
[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/newspaper/business-recorder-pakistan
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/industrial-waste-treatment
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/wastewater-recycling
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/water-supply
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/sanitation
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/solid-waste
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/landfill
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/waste-conversion
[10] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/asian-development-bank-adb
[11] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/pakistan
[12] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/punjab
[13] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/common-effluent-treatment-plant-cetp