Textile and dyeing industries are responsible for contaminating water due to discharge of coloured effluents. So water pollution due to colour from textile and dyestuff industries is a topic of major concern of scientist today. The removals of dyes present in these industrial effluents have been received great potential in last few years. It is due to increasing environment awareness and implementation of ever strict environmental rules. These textile effluents are highly toxic as they contain a large no of metal complex dyes. These high concentrations of dyes causes may water borne diseases and increase the BOD level of receiving water. In the present paper various methods of treatment of textile effluent have been studied and discussed to find out effective treatment of textile effluents. In present years colour effluents is treated by so many techniques like Chemical oxidation, Ozonation, Ion exchange process, Electrochemical process, Electrolytic precipitation, Foam fractionation, membrane filtration, photo catalytic degradation, Adsorption. From the study it has been found that no single method is sufficient to control the water pollution by textile effluents, however all the above mentioned methods minimize the percentage of colour and other parameters in textile effluents. Out of which adsorption process has been found to be more effective method for treating dye-containing textile effluents economically.