Bioremediation - one of the environmental clean up methodologies is well-known for its application in creosote contaminated soil systems. An attempt was made at our end to use this technology for liquid systems, specifically to a combined industrial effluent. It is a complex mixture of effluents discharged into a typical common effluent treatment plant by thirty five different industrial units of an industrial estate at Hyderabad. Broadly, the biosorption studies included reduction/removal of metals and biodegradation of complex organic compounds present in the combined industrial effluents...