The measures which were chosen to gauge industrial efforts were those related to other indicators of industrial activity, namely, the expenditures made for physical abatement facilities, the expenditures made for operation of these facilities, and the numbers of employees assigned to operation of these facilities for the abatement of pollution. Other factors added to the equation were the demands placed upon the plant abatement operation in terms of the flow of wastewater and the effluent composition of this wastewater. A further dimension was inserted by a consideration of use of the principal alternative to plant abatement procedures, the public sewer and treatment systems, its extent of use, and its relative cost. The information in this report was developed from a survey of manufacturing establishments in seven major industry categories which accounted for 92.3% of the water used and discharged in 1968 by all of the manufacturing industries included in the 1967 Census of Manufactures report, Water Use in Manufacturing.