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All plants have some degree of effectiveness in cleaning the soil, water and air around them, however, some are better in specific applications, so in this article we will look at 3 different plants that are well suited to aiding us in surviving a water crisis by providing water pollution solutions. Duckweed, Cattails and Sunflowers, using these plants as a water pollution solution is a brilliant plan, after all Mother Nature is the expert in cleaning up her own back yard.
When I first read about [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] this idea I was researching for advice about aquaponics and found out about duckweed, it is a fast growing plant that incorporate into your aquaponics set up to supply food for the fish. [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] But its other properties [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] are why it's included in this list.
How to use Duckweed for a water pollution solution.
The water plant Duckweed (Lemna minor L.) [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] has a great many uses.
As mention previously it grows unbeleivably fast, in the best conditions, it can double its weight in a day making it perfect for food production and as a biomass for fuel, when grown in the right conditions it has more starch than corn and so when distilled it makes perfectly good ethanol.
Duckweed can take away excess nitrogen, phosphorous and [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] other contaminants from the water. In fact it is used in bio mining for phosphates. The method involves unearthing polluted subsoil and combining it with water and then planting the duckweed on top where it then condenses the phosphate, down to the smallest particles, from the water and then itself is harvested and processed. The sediment left over can also be used for alternative purposes.
There is a vast amount of exploration of the uses for duckweed, it is a good process to get rid of harmful materials from the water and then it's biomass can also be used for animal feed, distilling into ethanol, and for fertilizer and the list goes on. All in all Duckweed is a fabulous, small plant that can aid us to survive a water crisis by providing us a water pollution solution.
How to use Cattails for a water pollution solution.
Cattails (Typha spp) is the next plant we are going to look at look at in our quest to locate a water pollution solution to survive a water crisis. With the aid of cattails one man has succeeded in doing just that, his name is Jeremiah Jackson, Ph.D., P.E., he experimented with a low tech version of a naturally occurring style water filtration system that could be assembled with material available locally. Using sand and cattails planted 1 foot apart in approximately 12 square feet, he reduced the amount of arsenic from quantities ussually found in locations such [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] as rural India to levels beneath what the WHO feels to be o.k. for human use. At an estimated cost of $0.21 for 1000 gal treated compared to the normal cost of removing arsenic which can range anywhere from, $53 to $300 per 1000 gal.
Cattails have been used for a long time for water remediation, Cattails are an aggressive species and many considered [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] invasive but they are a great water filter and if they are to be taken out they should be mechanically harvested and screened for pollutants.
How to use Sunflowers for a water pollution solution.
Sunflowers ( Helianthus sp) are very good at removing pollutants and storing them in their [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] root systems. Sunflowers are thought to be a natural hyper-accumulator, that is a plant that can absorb large amounts of pollutants without damaging itself. Sunflowers can remove chromium, copper, manganese, lead and zinc from the earth [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] and prevent it from flowing into the local water table.
There was an article [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] in the Feb 29 1996 Wall Street Journal documenting how a NJ company, Phytotech created a strain of sunflowers that could absorb even more harmful material then normal sunflowers. They planted these sunflowers on a piece of styrofoam in a pond that was near Chernobyl and [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] 12 days later they measured the levels of cesium and strontium concentrations contained in the roots and found the levels to be 8000 times and 2000 times, respectively, more than what remained in the water. It seems, however, that using Sunflowers in Fukishima did not have nearly as good a result, perhaps more study is warranted to find out why the differences in each environment Nevertheless, there is more than enough studies out there to say emphtically that plants filter water.
There is a multitude of information on the internet regarding water pollution solutions and how we can survive a water crisis, a lot more than what can be written about here. Without doubt and with considered use of our natural resources we should be able to fix up the environment in a non-destructive way and perhaps learn a thing or two about balancing our desires with the limited resources of our planet.
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