ASSESSMENT OF THE STATE OF WATER POLLUTION DUE TO THE TEXTILE INDUSTRIES OF PALI, RAJASTHAN AFTER THE NGT BAN

Abstract

Pali city is situated near Rohit area of Jodhpur city and is also known as textile industrial city of Rajasthan. There are thousands of dyeing and printing units of cotton and synthetic cloths. The industrial units of textile, dyeing and printing have been discharging a large quantity of effluents in the river Bandi thereby affecting the water quality. The soil in the area has also become sterile. Although the consciousness has been increased in the public by the media, which has resulted in the closure of many industries. NGT has also imposed ban on many textile units and many Common Effluent Treatment Plants have also been set up. But still a lot of illegal textile units are functional and their toxic effluent s are still being thrown in to the Bandi River without genuine prior treatment, making it highly polluted river. In this paper, we report effluent water analysis of different textile industries and CETP centers in the months of June 2019-February 2020. We have compared their values with the standard values given by the WHO. We observed that in most of the samples, the quality of water was not up to the mark and metal toxicant levels were alarmingly high.