Abstract of the project:Industrial pollution is a primary type of point
pollution and metals are the main cause of toxicity in living organisms.
The reason that wastes have been accepted into the sewers despite their
environmental consequences has been in large part based on the assumption
that if industry was not provided with a cheap disposal system this would
adversely affect economic and industrial growth and would pose a threat to
the living standards of residents living around these industries. This
assumption can easily be challenged both in narrow economic terms and also
in terms of the loss to the community of environmental amenity. Hattar
Industrial Estate (HIE) comprises more than 200 industrial units in
District Haripur Pakistan. Majority of industrial units release wastewater
containing inorganic substances, heavy metals and hazardous organic
compounds. It is very important to completely characterize these
wastewater streams so as to devise a treatment strategy for HIE effluents.
The present investigation will also evaluate the effect of heavy metals on
anaerobic process.