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The textile industry is vital to Bangladesh's economy, employing over three million women and being the top foreign exchange earner. However, it severely impacts the environment because of untreated wastewater discharge. High treatment costs, reliant on expensive imported chemicals, worsen the issue. The Environmental Conservation Rules (ECR) 2023 of Bangladesh requires textile wastewater discharge to have a colour of less than 150 Pt‐Co, which current systems struggle to meet affordably. A pilot project tested a sustainable solution using chemical oxidation with calcium hypochlorite and sand filtration with blast furnace iron slag. This method effectively removed colour, and the treated water showed total dissolved solids (TDS) levels of 157 ± 4 mg/L, total suspended solids (TSS) levels of 8 ± 2 mg/L and chemical oxygen demand (COD) levels of 9 ± 3 mg/L, with reductions of 92%, 87% and 94%, respectively, making it a viable solution for resource‐limited economies. Highlights: The research utilized calcium hypochlorite and iron slag to treat textile wastewater, which reduces reliance on costly imported chemicals and energy‐intensive systems.The treatment process effectively addresses the ECR 2023, which requires textile wastewater discharge to have a colour of less than 150 Pt‐Co.The pilot‐scale plant demonstrated average removal efficiencies of 92% for TDS, 87% for TSS and 94% for COD and achieved complete colour removal.The tertiary treated water meets the standards of ECR 2023 producing water, which can be reused in the textile industry. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents information on the limited accuracy of arsenic field test kit. While scientists were monitoring arsenic removal filters in Nawalparasi, Nepal, it became evident that the arsenic field test kits are not completely reliable for measuring arsenic in natural groundwater's at levels close to the critical regulatory arsenic concentrations of 10 ppb, the World Health Organization's recommended limit for drinking water and 50 ppb the regulatory limit for drinking water set by the governments of Bangladesh, Nepal, India, and Cambodia. The atomic adsorption hydride generation method was used to analyze the laboratory samples. Various organizations in Nepal, Bangladesh, and Cambodia are using arsenic field test kits to screen for arsenic in wells. It is estimated that 400,000 wells must be screened in Nepal, 10 million in Bangladesh, and 40,000 in Cambodia.