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The Challenges

• Textile industry, one of the heaviest • Impact on • Going • Shortage of
industrial consumers of water, has Environment: forward the good quality
thus been under extreme pressure Fashion tends to industry is cotton to
to reduce water consumption. leave a pollution likely to see meet growing
footprint, with stricter demand for
- By 2030 demand for fresh water will each step of the government textiles and
increase by 40% and by 2050, an clothing life cycle regulations to inability to
estimated billion-plus people will
lack water required for purposes generating improve their meet demand
such as drinking, cooking and potential processes. for silk
bathing. environmental Textile products due
and occupational manufacturin to slow
- The sector’s high water consumption hazards. g urgently production of
and use of hazardous chemicals need Emissions from needs raw silk are
to be addressed to protect India’s textile processes sustainable, other
people and ecosystems. Indian also cause eco-friendly challenges
textiles mills need to adhere to the pollution, be it and cost that the
Restricted Substance Lists of the air pollution or effective industry is
world’s top brands.
water pollution. processes. trying to
address
Daily Water
Consumption of
India's Textile Industry -

425,000,000

gallons

Approximately
500

of water is used in
production of one
pair of jeans

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In Pursuit of Sustainable Development