WATER CONSERVATION
June 1st, 2002
BY KEITH NUTHALLA EUROPEAN Union funded research project has concluded that the water consumption of the tanning and leather industry could be reduced by as much as 90 per cent. The European Commission is now advising the industry to further reduce their water consumption through internal recycling. The TANNET project integrated small research schemes tackling specific and complementary parts of water cycle treatment. The idea was to examine how their studies would yield ideas about reducing water usage for a wide range of economic sectors, amalgamating their ...
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