Breaking the vicious water (pollution) circle. Bangladesh textile industries consume (and waste) huge amounts of ground water resulting in depletion and growing shortages for municipal and agriculture use. In addition, the more/less/not treated wastewater from these industries pollutes and salinize the surface waters (canals, ponds, rivers) especially in the dry season. This pollution trickles down to the shallow and deeper ground water thereby reducing the ground water quality in addition to its quantity. With thanks to the IFC (World Bank Group), the broad program sponsorship and local support, we started to break down this vicious water (pollution) circle upstream in 19 leading textile industries. This is largely achieved by reducing ground water consumption and wastewater discharge by up to 80%, by reducing and recovering salt in the production and by upgrading and optimizing the wastewater treatment plants as to enable sustainable water recycling.