TREATMENT OF WASTE WATER USING LOCALLY AVAILABLE NATURAL MATERIALS

Water is an essential requirement for the establishment and maintenance of diverse human activities. Water pollution affects wildlife, ecosystem, human health etc. The degree of wastewater treatment varies in most developing countries. This project deals with treatment of waste water by using locally available materials like sugarcane waste, charcoal and coconut shell by filtration. The effluent of wastewater is a high chemical leather tannery effluent collected from a leather tannery near Chennai. Before carrying out the treatment the important parameters like Ph, turbidity, Chloride, total dissolved solids, hardness were tested. Finally, the treated water is once again checked for changes in parameters.