| Project Detail |
The Ganga River Basin in Northern India is one of the most polluted and over-used river basins in the world. The Kanpur Unnao leather cluster is one of the largest polluting industries in the Ganga River Basin. A major challenge is to establish effective cooperation between the public water authorities responsible for effluent treatment and the small, medium and large scale tanning companies who are responsible for reducing the pollution loads (metals, salts, organic waste). Within the project, a partnership platform will be established between the tanners and the local water authorities. The partnership platform aims to provide agreements for the tanneries to reduce water consumption and pollution, and the government to enhance the capacity of the common effluent treatment plant (CETP). The PPP model will serve as a blueprint for other projects and programmes under the ‘Clean Ganga’ river basin programme.• Solidaridad with the technical partners will train the tannery sector and implement demonstrations, and ensure that a large part of the tanneries (large, medium and small) implement cleaner technologies to reduce water consumption and pollution.• Immediate beneficiaries are the 250.000 workers in the regional tanning and leather industry (50.000 in tanneries) as well as the 30.000 smallholder farmers who depend on the re-use of the waste water for their agricultural production. |
