ABSTRACT
This chapter asserts that the technologies are being adopted by Nigerian manufacturing firms to abate or prevent pollution. With respect to industrial wastewater pollution, the chapter is aimed at exposing the current trends in technology responses that ameliorate the external diseconomies of production in the two selected water pollution intensive sectors, food and beverages, and textiles. This chapter highlights the obstacles to the adoption of environmentally benign technologies for water pollution control in Nigerian manufacturing. The two sectors are among the oldest manufacturing sectors in Nigeria. With respect to foreign skill intensity ratio, the minimum of zero is found in the food and beverages sector. The present age vintage of the main physical production equipment in the food and beverages sector ranges from a minimum of two to a maximum of 36 years with a mean age of 15 years.
