ABSTRACT
This chapter presents twelve detailed firm level case studies to illustrate technological responses of manufacturing enterprises to demands of environmentally sustainable industrialisation with respect to industrial waste water pollution in Nigeria. Technology adoption for water pollution control at FB2 did not receive substantial attention until an environmental incident occurred in 1996. The firm does not favour introduction of wastewater effluent charge as instrument of water pollution control. Rather, it stresses that government should give tax relief to firms that have invested in pollution control technologies. The firm expects stricter environmental regulation in future, and supports effluent charges as an instrument of industrial wastewater pollution control. It believes that such will instil discipline in firms with respect to effluent generation, and encourage investment in water pollution control technologies. With respect to technology adoption for water pollution control, FB7 has only a primary wastewater treatment as prelude to the release of its effluent to the centralised industrial wastewater treatment system.
