Yesterday, I have just written about one of my dream which is purifying all rivers in Thailand. However, today there is a way to bring the rivers back to their origin.
According to BBC Future , Emily Anthes reports in her title, "Natural's water purifiers help clean up lakes", that Fish Fry Lake in Montana, which was totally polluted, is back to nature by the mimicking nature innovation, called "BioHaven floating islands", which can treat water pollution by adding Oxygen into water and removing waste.
At first, if I become a professional scientist, I will create a special bacteria which consumes some pollutants such as carbon dioxide, plastics, or even metals, has short-life and after die it release oxygen. If it is complete, I will throw this bacteria to polluted water as Percy Jackson throw his sand coin into sea to eliminate pollutants. However, after reading this tittle, I should change my mind. Because nature treatment should be solved by natural way, it might hardly have any after-effect. If I continue my idea, it might cause some serious effect as bacteria will take control the world. The main problem would be bacteria which is a creature and it will protect itself from extinction. Therefore, it would develop itself to resist to extremely condition; for example, if pollutants was gone, this bacteria had revolutionized to consume water instead. Of course, this revolution would have been continuing until nothing would leave, even us. We would face to horrible trouble from bacteria. Or maybe I saw too much scientific movies.
However, I have some questions about the lake in Anthes's report. How to be severe pollution in the lake? If I use this innovation in Klong Sean Sab, it will be effective as the result of Fish Fry Lake, or not. How expensive is this floating island? Can I create legally in Thailand ? We have not enough money to buy copyright because corruption have stolen all our money.
Unfortunately, Thais will have been suffered from water pollution because if the floating island are installed now, we will drown. Because this innovation will block the flow of the river, the cities located near the edge of river, especially Bangkok, will be deluged.
Reference
Anthes, E. (2012, September 26). Nature's water purifiers help clean up lakes. BBC Future. Retrieved September 26, 2012 from http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20120925-natures-water-purifiers
Thursday, 27 September 2012
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It's a neat solution to a serious problem, and I thought that it shows us how important it is to have lots of companies and individuals working free of governments to find solutions to problems. Governments seem to me often not to help because they are more inclined to try the same dead and failing "solutions" that worked badly in the past, as we see to often in every country when governments decide to "help" with any problem. Much better to get the government out of the way and let citizens and businesses experiment with many solutions, making a fair profit from the ones that work.
ReplyDeleteMy next thought was to wish that someone would come up with such a neat, natural solution to one of Australia's great ecological disasters: the filthy cane toads that were introduced to control beetles that ate sugar cane, but which preferred to eat almost everything else as they spread and contaminated more and more of Australia with their deadly toxins. As with Aor's biological solution, I hope that some nice bacteria might be found, or perhaps created using genetic engineering, to attack and kill cane toads.
This reminds me of some controversy over EM ball (Effective Microorganisms) that was used during the flooding last year in order to purify water. Some guru claimed that throwing EM ball in contaminated water did not increase oxygen but it paradoxically decrease oxygen in the water. As a result, it could not be use to purify the contaminated water. Therefore, I agree with you that to treat nature we should use a natural way but we should do research whether that method does really the nature or hurt.
ReplyDeleteIn my country, we have a project which is occurred by H.M.K. Bhomibol. we called that Royal projects, one of them,Laem Phak Bia project which is the wastewater treatment project. It divided with 4 zones. Wastewater was treated in each zone for 7 days so we need 28 days for tread in a unit. In the first, domestic wastewater should be pre-treatment with sedimentation and grass filtration process then water was drained to another zone to adjust oxygen demand, pH, Nitrogen and Phosphorus follow standard level. then the water is drained to the sea. This project is in Petchaburi which is lower central part of Thailand.
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