During the last few decades, management for waste and its control has become one of the most critical environment problems. Distillery spent wash may be used as potential fertilizer for growing many crops after proper treatment. Conversion of wheat straw into cation exchanger is an indigenous approach for making use of agricultural waste for the production of cation exchanger. The cation exchangers from wheat straw can reduced the pollution load of distillery spent wash to such an extent that it can be successfully used for irrigation purpose or may be drained into various water bodies. The average value of exchange capacity of H+ form of cation exchange from wheat straw is found to be 1.896 meq/gm. There is considerable reduction in various physico-chemical parameters such as pH, conductivity, total solids, acidity, total hardness, chloride content, BOD, COD, DO and metal ions Cu, Cr, Cd, Mn and Zn. This is suited for irrigation in Haryana.
