Casey Concrete will pay $25000 for releasing cement water

A company based in Truro, U.S., has been fined for $25000 for polluting by releasing Wash water from Transit mixers into water body.
As per Indian standards of CPCB, the limit on pH of release water is between 5.5-9. the pH of Water released from transit mixers after washing usually goes up to 12 and above. The water, though can be used for manufacturing of concrete again, it seems baffling as to what prevents responsible companies to include a system of recycling of waste water. Also, the monitoring of environmental agencies over the effluents is limited, since it becomes difficult to track each industrial unit effluents for various parameters pertaining to hazards concerned with environment.
The usual system of checking on pollution, on account of carbon dioxide release, is to tax industries for each unit of production. But since taxing reduces the efficiency of markets, alternate option was found, viz. carbon credits. In short, as per this system, if a company can reduce it's caron dioxide emissions, it is eligible for some points (carbon credit) based on the quantity of reduction of carbon dioxide emission. These credits can be sold to another company, whose production can fluctuate heavily with change in carbon dioxide release.
It is a High time for environmental agencies to develop a similar system, pertaining to all parameters of environmentally harmful elements. In case of concrete producing industries, the water released is highly alkaline, whereas there can be other inductries who may be releasing acidic effluents, and finding difficult to treat the same. Fining and taxing has become a sort of cheap threat, which is being used by govt. for each and every problem. A better solution would be to combine, effluents of opposite nature, release the water after neutralisation, and use the salts for further production. This will not only solve the problem of pollution, but will also, help in generating employment.
Tax should always be not the first option for a government to curtail or control certain things, but they should be used only after other options do not exist. Taxes increase the deadweight losses of economy, and may also create hindrance in restoration of global economy.