AgroClean | Wastewater Treatment for Agro-Industries

Effects of agro-industry pollution

Developing nations often rely on a combination of subsistence farming and income generation from informal agro-industries, yet health risks and environmental pollution can have a great impact on both of them. Due to the unsafe discharge of agro-industry waste, clean water supplies are polluted, productive potential is exhausted, and health risks in the region are gravely increased.

• A German Parliament report from 2008 recently found 70% of indus-trial enterprises in developing na-tions discharge wastewater untrea-ted into the environment 
• Improved sanitation reduces diar-rhoeal morbidity by 32%

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