Water Hyacinths in a river of Kerala, the worst aquatic weed ever known, the aqua life killers. These water plants are notorious for their fast growth. Hyacinths are considered as one of the most productive aquatic plant. A plant which can spread over the whole river in a small amount of time.Water hyacinths collected from a small area of river like this can weight upto tonnes.
Once there was a River!.
Hyacinths are known for clogging the river thus making difficult for boats and canoes to move on, Killing the aquatic life by preventing oxygen from dissolving in water, reduced water quality, increasing mosquitoes for they are better place for mosquitoes to lay eggs.
Water hyacinths are known to make allergies from their plant saps to humans. Also some diseases are seen in people living around the water bodies filled with hyacinth weeds.Recently they clogged the spillway of a dam in Kerala while trying to open the shutters and made serious damage to the Dam sidewalls.Anyway its really a nice sight when the aquatic weed blooms, the whole river surface turns violet with the bloomed violet flowers.These weeds can be used as a raw material for the cottage industry making handicrafts and households with fibers.
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