QUESTION
Blow down water from cooling towers to garden for irrigation - Need details and clarification on permissible quality

I want to use blow down water from cooling towers for irrigation purposes in my factory garden. So should I follow standards of "land for irrigation" from Schedule 6 of EPA to check whether the water quality is suitable for watering the plants?

We are generating 360,000 ltr of blow down water from our cooling towers. So we were thinking of using it for irrigation purposes. We will check the blow down water as per the norm (provided in the answer). If the water meets the norm we will set up a facility for using it for irrigation purpose.  Affiliation: OSRAM India Pvt. Ltd.

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9 June 2009