I did some small-scale research with water hyacinth. I'm living on a smallholding in the Sable Hills area, near Roodeplaat dam. I have a large swimming pool size duck pond. I collected water hyacinth at Roodeplaat dam by the bakkie loads and put it in my duck pond. The ducks couldn't stop eating water hyacinth! Eventually I had to protect the water hycinth from the ducks by fencing off an area for the water hycinth, but the ducks always found a way through or over the fence. I eventually had to give up, and the ducks live from duck pellets again. Here's my solution to the water hycinth problem: start a duck farm. Create a floating platform in the middle of the dam for the ducks to retreat to, be protected against predators and to breed. Wallah! The ducks shall gobble up the water hycinth!

@johanroos699

Жыл бұрын

Well done Thanks!!

@maraisleroux2717

Жыл бұрын

Excellent

@tumisanejoseph6883

Жыл бұрын

Brilliant Idea, and it does not sound complicated or expensive but some cadres are getting ready to loot whatever budget will be allocated to this issue.

@BantuLioness

Жыл бұрын

Smart 💡

@angiemac8066

Жыл бұрын

Brilliant idea. Have you contacted any of the authorities at the Water Board to share you story?

If the Harties community work together, this can be a job creation opportunity. Without involving the government

@KPHCars

Жыл бұрын

exactly!

We designed a special dredger a few years ago that would have taken care of the entire problem, including the seeds. But not being a BEE company, they were not interested in us building and doing the work. All material would have been removed and a product used for cooking purposes as an end product...

@kapoto1942

Жыл бұрын

Share

@iwazhere7077

Жыл бұрын

Take it to Thailand, Indonesia or India. In fact, the US Army might also be interested. Fook our incompetent regime

@ThamiNdlalane

7 ай бұрын

Maybe approach varsities and work with them.

It's an opportunity, not a problem. That's a goldmine in biomass and biogas

Pig and cattle feed, compost and mulch, all the studies have been done, someone just needs to utilise it commercially and the problem is gone.

@masjm7278

Жыл бұрын

Not ANC government. they are ignorant.

Why dont they get that eggmixer thingamijig used overseas to churn up the hyacinths. Cant it tnen be used for fodder for animals? Where are the entreprenurial engineers of our country? Overseas?

We have the same problem here in Suriname. This weed is closing all creeks and trenshes. And its growing superfast

Great content. Be nice to eradicate the problem.

Harties Dam is going through it and I hope thinga work out for that place because it's one of my faves to visit.

Awesome documentary guys, thing is it boils down to what goes down the line, people should be aware of such and not just flush down anything or also contact the municipality when sewerage pipes burst as all eventually leads into the rivers which enter the dams and cost such issues

Nobody mentions the nutritional pollution from informal settlements! This country will never solve this weed problem!

This used to be taken care of and managed by department of water affairs years ago. Since 1994 it has gone uncontrolled

@KPHCars

Жыл бұрын

Anc is your reason why

We used to ride motor boats at Harties in the mid 90s. It's so sad seeing this beautiful place like this.

@maraisleroux2717

Жыл бұрын

Maybe that caused imbalance to start with

“Water hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes), an aquatic noxious invasive weed native to South America, first appeared in countries in Africa in the early 1900s. Scientists there dubbed it the “world’s worst aquatic weed”, after it spread from South Africa in the Cape in the early 1900s and started clogging up major dams and rivers. In east Africa, the nefarious invader arrived with Belgian colonists in Rwanda, who liked the look of its glossy leaves and delicate purple flowers floating in their garden ponds. But by the 1980s, it had slipped out of Rwanda via the Kagera river and made its way downstream to Lake Victoria.” The silver lining is that it has a high ratio of carbon to nitrogen and some research has been done to see how it could be used as a biofuel in kenya, Nigeria and India. With Eskom issues this could be a source for biogas.

@chriskwakernaat2328

Жыл бұрын

it's turned into bio ethanol for cooking , charcoal and used as animal feed and fertiliser.

It’s very good compost apparently. There someone doing it. I wonder what happened ??

I dont know much about this, but isnt there a boat that can scoop up the plants out the water...similar to a lawnmover/garbage truck type device?

Thank's to the ANC the whole country is choking!

People think the hyacinth is what's worsening water quality meanwhile radioactive waste and raw sewage gets dumped daily

That is DANGEROUS . No poisons just hard work clearing it‼️‼️‼️

From what I know of the hyacinth: You shouldn't try to eat it , they absorb lots of waste in the water You can try to use it as compost , but keep in mind they mostly consist of water , so when they start to dry you end up with about 20% mass from which you started , but could still work as compost There is a kind of poison that could only kill green plants , it won't do anything to aquatic life , but it is a bit expensive For all the fish lovers , the hyacinth is the safe haven for all biggest carp , so if you get rid of hyacinth then they'll get fished out

Thank you ANC.

And when the residents set up a program...the government said NO... why? Greed... its our Ruling cause of all disasters in this country

We were there this morning...looks like pumpkin leaves. Why accur in the beginning?

Is there any nutritional value in this plant? What about cattle fodder?

How deep are the roots?

Go in with boat trollers and scoop them out. Just do something. This has been going on for years

There is an animal that destroys these plants ,can't come on the name,but heard of it before ,here in Uitenhage the swartkop river runs through under the bridge on your way to Volkswagen ,that also have these plants and the cattle roaming here usually eats that pesky plants .

Perfect time to purchase devalued real estate there.

What are predaters???

Do you know this is an edible plant! Tastes like celery actually

Farmers could use the hyacinth to make compost. If it's job is to soak up waste from the water it's actually doing a good job. It's our job to pull out tons at a time and make profit from it by using as fertiliser for our farms

@highwayhydroponics5823

3 ай бұрын

Seems to logical so the government will go another route.

Turn into biofuels and generate electricity 🤣

Harvest the stuff, turn it into bioethanol to fuel the boats to pick it up out of the water.

People who live along the river, who throw a lot of crap in the water and our government who does not fix sewerage pumps

the problem with ducks, birds eating it, they consume it and then poo the seeds back in the water with added nutrients from the poo

Now there is a great work opportunity for many unemployment . This water hyacinth problem was sorted out twenty years ago but the problem recurred when there was no upkeep as always

we going to have to fix our water pollution problems and useless government departments and municipalities

you need to remove 2 lbs of water hycinth daily per week in every acre of water hycinth. ratio: 1 acre of water hycinth remove 2 lbs. per week. SIMPLE AS THAT. DO THE RESEARH ON HOW FAST THIS PLANT GROW AND MATH IT OUT CORRECTLY

I don't know if any South Africans watch KZread, but hey....maybe there are some helpful videos on how to get rid of water hyacinth out there?

Fight invasive species infestation with another invasive species infestation... Doomed

Use nets to pull it out with

Isn't it time we become the predator. Harvest the plant use it for fertilizer or animal feed.

It all comes down to waste management by the goverment. The same govermet responsible for loadshedding and municipal mal goverment. The govement is unintellegent and un trained

Shocking! I remember it was cleaned up in late 1970's early 1980's. Why has is been allowed to get to this state? Oh, wait... It's cANCer!

@ThamiNdlalane

7 ай бұрын

Did you watch the whole video or you just ran to the comments?

Some sick person even put that weed in Lake chivero in Zimbabwe.

For many years it has been happening here

It's a pity that the video has such a poor narrator, who was furthermore also recorded using very low quality equipment.

In Malawi they use it to feed chickens

Just listen to what they say !! Lack of maintenance . Labour intensive Labour RSA has ‼️‼️

Who is the clown that first brought this hycinth to SA?

@OsmanK699

Жыл бұрын

Who else but the invaders?

@OTline

Жыл бұрын

I hate that person 👤

@maraisleroux2717

Жыл бұрын

Apparently Belgiums many decades ago brought it to Africa for the pretty leaves and flowers

For PITIES SAKE NO BLOODY GOGGAS ‼️‼️‼️

Treating the problem, not the cause.🙃

Use crop sprayers and spray it with weed killer. That is the only way out I can see

@revinot

Жыл бұрын

it will poison the water for the fish and other aquatic animals

@pieterpieterse1731

Жыл бұрын

That toilet pit is already dead so sray it

@maraisleroux2717

Жыл бұрын

Het kr enige idee waarvan jy praat. Die ekosisteem is in sy moer oor gif en dit veroorsaak meer peste. Bly tog net stil want netnou luister iemand dalk na jou en dan het ons erger probleme

swans will eat all the plants within a year, The problem is the communities eating the swans.

Pre day tors

Aquatic lawn mower

And it is anothe thing that the small minded Anc can't deal with. But if there is money to steal....

These things happen in a Country with incompetent leadership. Viva ANC

Look at the brilliant ideas below for its commercial use. Give our guys a chance for job creation and economic boost and innovation.

Fifty years ago South Africa was a world leader in engineering projects albeit on the backs of black workers. Talent has been chased overseas,resources depleted, explosive crime and corruption and a focus on developing military equipment, this is is probably the result. Another missed opportunity to develop a resource.

Tried that did not work african insects and birds had a feast

Clean up the jukskei of sewerage problem solved

Turn it into compost

We call is kangkong weed

put a herd of hippos inm they devour the plant, 200kg each per day

Biodiesel

@robertlindsay9826

Жыл бұрын

That's what I read years back. I thought it had a great potential

Fit a big shredder on a barge and shred the plant into tiny Pieces let it sink to the bottom

It appears that you're not receiving bang for your buck in South Africa. Isn't that what you pay income tax for?

Duckweed

20twentee🙄

Omg we pay 10 dollars for 3…

@junaidjunaid5574

Жыл бұрын

I pay you 10 dollars to take a thousand lol

Fishing nets or Plant material. Which one you think entangled the boats? Weak excuse. Also why no mention of agricultural run-off, those farmers are probably not black...

Integrated management BRING ON THE HIPPOS 🦛🦛🦛🦛🦛🦛🦛

@maraisleroux2717

Жыл бұрын

That sounds good