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Natural Pollution Filter The water hyacinth, “considered worse than a plague in many areas of the world,” has been discovered to have some “sterling qualities,” says The Toronto Star. The floating purple water flower reproduces at an incredible rate. “Under normal conditions, 10 hyacinth plants can multiply to 600,000 and take over an acre of water in just eight months,” says the paper. “As they grow, they mesh together into a thick mat that can make a waterway impassable.” But with roots dangling in the water and absorbing nutrients directly from it, the plants work extremely well as a pollution filter. The common water pollutants—nitrates, phosphates, potassium—are needed by the plants to survive, and they also absorb toxic wastes, heavy metals and pesticides. So some cities have now turned to cultivating the plants for use in waste-water treatment—at less than half the cost of conventional systems.
*** g99 1/22 p. 31 Plants Versus Pollution *** REMOVING pollutants from contaminated soil and water is a lengthy, expensive, and often difficult business. However, ordinary plants are proving capable of doing the job all by themselves. Scientists are considering using the common pondweed and periwinkle to clean up old munition sites and reclaim the land. In experiments, sterilized parrot feather and periwinkle extracted TNT so well that within a week no trace of explosive remained in the plants’ tissues, nor did burning them produce an explosion! Other researchers discovered that cells and extracts of the common sugar beet could absorb and degrade nitroglycerin. What about water heavily contaminated with radioactivity? Sunflowers seem to be helpful. Six-week-old sunflowers were used to tackle contaminated wastewater in an abandoned uranium factory in Ohio, U.S.A. The result? Uranium contamination was reduced from an average of 200 micrograms per liter to below the safety limit of 20 micrograms per liter. Other tests, at the Chernobyl reactor, near Kiev, showed that sunflowers soaked up 95 percent of the radioactive strontium and cesium within ten days! Farmers may soon be using the yellow iris and the bulrush in their efforts to avoid polluting watercourses with pesticides and herbicides. This decontamination process is accomplished primarily by microbes in the plants’ root systems that break down the contaminants and clean the water. The above examples illustrate the marvelous capacity of those invisible qualities that Jesus made in plants and Jehovah made to restore all things. |
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