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The expansive growth of dairy industries in India over the years has achieved annual milk production of 165 million tons (FAO, 2018). As the dairy sector keeps contributing to the national economy, it becomes crucial to devise steps for its proper management. Most of the processes in dairy plants include the milk receiving section, curd section, paneer section, lassi and buttermilk section and packaging section (IS:8682-1977: Reaffirmed, 2003); these processes require a huge amount of water; subsequently, resulting in the generation of a huge quantity of dairy wastewater. It contains a large amount of organic matter, if disposed of untreated, causes water pollution by rapidly depleting the dissolved oxygen, which threatens the aquatic life. To avoid such adverse effects on the environment, a suitable dairy wastewater treatment process needs to be devised and adopted as well.
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Gyadi, R., Linggi, N., Devi, Y.B. (2022). Recycling of Dairy Wastewater by Vermifiltration Technique. In: Haq, I., Kalamdhad, A.S., Dash, S. (eds) Environmental Degradation: Monitoring, Assessment and Treatment Technologies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-94148-2_12
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