Abstract

The environment and public health cannot be sufficiently protected by controlling the concentrations of pollutants in industrial wastewater through wastewater treatment, as is done globally, without also controlling the pollutants’ loads and rate of discharge. This study looked into the reasons behind some Niger Delta companies’ failure to treat their wastewater in an effort to offer a solution. The aforementioned served as the impetus for this work, which created the “Novel Pollution Prevention Process for Regulating Industrial Wastewater” and added pollution load and wastewater discharge rate controls to improve environmental and public health protection. The techniques used included a questionnaire survey, wastewater analysis, discharge rate measurement, mathematical modeling, and design. The findings showed that pollution loads and wastewater discharge rates ought to be controlled in addition to pollution concentrations.