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Water Hyacinth in Lakes and Rivers

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I see many of lakes and rivers facing this problem of water hyacinth growing enormously and luxuriously, which not only affects the ecology and natural properties, but also causes a rise in breeding of mosquitoes, which ultimately raises vector born diseases. So what solutions can be found to solve these problem.
Contributed by Manohar Mungekar, nkg

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Weed Boats

I suggest a fleet of "Weedboats". The Weeds be removed, dried and put to use. A Hundred "100" boats woould not make a big impact. But more than this number, would slowly make an impact and provide ...

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Diatom Algae

We use Diatom Algae to keep our Water Hyacinth and Blue Green algae from lakes and rivers. Diatoms are very useful algae unlike other algae and weeds that grow in polluted water. Diatoms give mo...

Wealth from waste

Water hyacinth (WH) though a weed could also be used as a raw material to generate biogas. The weed could be periodically harvested from the water body and subjected to anaerobic digestion using simpl...

Benefits dried Water Hyacinth

Dehydrated coarse shopped Water Hyacinth is an ideal soil cover: -Protect soil from sun exposure. -Protect topsoil from washing in torrential rains. -Helps keep fertilizer in place. -Builds an org...

Growing medium

Dehydrated Water Hyacinth makes a wonderful growing porous mediun for many crops. It is specially good for orquids....

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Water Hyacinth for Food. I remember seeing a documentary....hereby they process this WH for biscuit. Anybody got this information & the processes do share it here.
- Tang Lee Kok

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