Water sustainability index of industries in India
Student name: Mr Noorullah Wasi
Guide: Dr Ritika Mahajan
Year of completion: 2018
Host Organisation: UN Global Compact Network India
Supervisor (Host Organisation): Ms Tamanna Girdhar
Abstract: Wastewater condition in India is the major challenges for the country. With increasingly
irregular wealth patterns and natural disaster Indian water condition is diminishing because
of the various reason being lacked of and among one of them is Industrial water uses, many
industries use water as an input so like all other input a company provides in the process of
production. A comparative water study with best practices in water and creating a range for
industries will provides a useful framework for examining industrial water use and its
sensitivity to the prices that is, its elasticity which can help many other stakeholders such as
lawmakers, consumers, policy maker, corporate etc and could finally result in better water
condition in the country. Hence total of 7 sector been selected for the study with best global
benchmark namely textile, paper & pulp, fertilizers, Oil & Gas, Automotive1, Thermal
power generation, Iron & Steel.
A Convenience sampling was conducted where the survey was collected from different
companies. Prior to the selection of technique, a multi-stakeholder meeting was Organise
and discussed about various challenges, risk and criticality of having water study for
industrial sector comprises in India.
Since the cost of water is low, it makes more economic sense for an industry to dilute the
effluent than to treat it to meet the standards. Hence a proper and optimal use of water has
to be in industries and the awareness need to be created among the companies about the
criticality of water and creating a benchmarking for the industries for optimal utilization of
water has to be foster so that industries are indulge in activities such as water recycling,
wastewater management, ground water recycling, rainwater harvesting, etc.
