Studies on Potential of Water Quality Trading at Industrial Zone Palsana,Surat

摘要

In recent years the problem of pollution has become very acute.The emission trading program is introduced by applying market based technique instead of command and control technique to control the pollution.In this paper an attempt has been made to evaluate potential of water quality trading(WQT)as market based instruments for CETP,Palsana Gujarat India.The data of actual effluent released was collected for one hundred and eleven industries on daily basis for three months.In addition to this,the data of authorized quantity of effluent discharge(QED)for each industry and design capacity of CETP also was collected.Based on the studies,it was observed that as the effluent generation is below the authorized QED,WQT is not possible,however as the QED increases WQT can be implemented with cap and trade mechanism.In this study based on simulated data it is observed that,cap and trade mechanism may be feasible below the breakeven point,i.e.85% of the authorized QED.Further,simulated results represents that as the authorized QED is lowered,the potential for WQT become more feasible.Thus,WQT with cap and trade seems feasible at CETP,Palsana.