The lettuce that cleans water!

Jean-Pierre Bayala, in Burkina Faso, has found a simple, effective and beneficial way to clean waste water from local handicraft workshops using the water lettuce (Pistia stratiotes). Simple, because it only needs four tanks. Effective, because the...

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation
Format: News Item
Language:Inglés
Published: Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation 1999
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/48560
Description
Summary:Jean-Pierre Bayala, in Burkina Faso, has found a simple, effective and beneficial way to clean waste water from local handicraft workshops using the water lettuce (Pistia stratiotes). Simple, because it only needs four tanks. Effective, because the...