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Textile processing units continue to discharge untreated effluent [1]

Colour of water turned black and acidic smell emanated

While people in the world observing the World Environment Day and discussing measures to protect the Earth on Tuesday, it is business as usual for many textile processing and tannery units in Erode district. A few textile processing and tannery units located in BP Agraharam and its nearby areas dumped huge amount of untreated, toxic effluents in a water carrying channel that flows into Cauvery River. The colour of the water turned black in the channel and the acidic smell emanated from the effluents.

Publication Date: 
07/06/2012
S. Ramesh [2]
Hindu (Chennai) [3]
Tags:
Erode (D) [4], Textile Industry [5], Toxic Wastes [6], Cauvery [7], River Pollution [8], Farmers [9], Water Pollution [10], Industrial Waste [11], Industrial Pollution [12], State Pollution Control Board (SPCB) [13], Hazardous Waste [14], Tamil Nadu [15]
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