It's a Plant Eat Plant World: Phytoremediation cleans up ponds

摘要

Lesson one: A. Pond scum is bad, and B. Clean water is good. Facility managers with dirty ponds or lakes often have a difficult time getting from A. to B. However, a researcher in Hawaii has developed a way to simplify that journey. Wenhao Sun, with aPh.D. in horticulture, is conducting a full-scale demonstration project of a method using terrestrial plants growing on a floating platform to not only remove pollutants, but also control algae in a saltwater pond that was loaded with both. The processis cost-effective, quick and attractive.