Kerala Water Authority (KWA) is ready to establish an effluent testing laboratory at Athiyannoor to monitor the operations of industrial units in Thiruvananthapuram. It would also analyse the amount of pollution generated by these industries.
Funds worth Rs 30 million were allocated by the state government in their budget related to such works. These funds would be used to set up laboratories for monitoring the quality of drinking water and hazardous substances in the treated wastewater discharged by factories and industries into various rivers and streams.
This new laboratory will be equipped to test around 18 parameters including PH, total dissolved solids, total suspended solids, suspended solids, conductivity, chemical oxygen demand, biochemical oxygen demand, sulphate, copper, zinc, etc.
At present, two effluent testing laboratories are operational at the sewage treatment plants in Muttathara and Medical College.