Algae culture may hold key to cleaning up city's water bodies


Algae, the icky green patch found floating on water bodies, may well be the saviour of Cooum. Researchers from the United Kingdom have suggested that the city should explore micro algae culturing to combat pollution in water bodies.

UK-based researchers participating in the British Council organised Newton Bhabha Researcher Link Workshop on 'Clean water through advanced and affordable materials,' said microalgae culture was a natural and cost-effective waste water treatment process, less explored by governments.

"t is an alternative to chemical treatment of waste water. Algae can survive on intensely polluted water bodies, which other microbes cannot tolerate. It ingests nitrogen, phosphorus and cabon-dioxide released from pollutants and sediments," said Alla Silkina of Swansea University. She researches on the potential of algal biotechnology for waste remediation....................Read more

 

Source: The Times of India

 


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