{"id":27546,"date":"2025-03-26T08:24:12","date_gmt":"2025-03-26T02:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=27546"},"modified":"2025-04-08T10:30:43","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T05:00:43","slug":"water-hyacinth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/water-hyacinth\/","title":{"rendered":"Water hyacinth"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Water Hyacinth Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>A thick blanket of water hyacinth covers the Mula river near Holkar Bridge, raising alarms among residents about the river&#8217;s deteriorating condition.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>About Water Hyacinth<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a <strong>free-floating, aquatic plant<\/strong> in the pickerelweed family.<\/li>\n<li>Scientific Name: Eichhornia crassipes<\/li>\n<li>It is <strong>native to<\/strong> tropical regions of <strong>South America<\/strong> and is <strong>now present on all continents except Antarctica.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is one of the <strong>world\u2019s most serious water weeds<\/strong> because of its aggressive, <strong>fast-growing nature.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It can <strong>form dense mats <\/strong>that <strong>reduce the water quality<\/strong>, change water flows, and <strong>increase sediment.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It<strong> crowds out native aquatic plants<\/strong> and animals, altering ecosystems, destroying habitats, and blocking irrigation systems.<\/li>\n<li>It has <strong>thick, glossy green leaves<\/strong> and lavender to <strong>violet flowers<\/strong> with a yellow spot.<\/li>\n<li>It was <strong>introduced to India during the British<\/strong> colonial rule as an ornamental aquatic plant from South America.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Water Hyacinth Uses<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The plant has been used as a <strong>biofertilizer <\/strong>in some organic agriculture practices.<\/li>\n<li>The plant produces beautiful <strong>purple flowers<\/strong> that have high <strong>aesthetic value.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is <strong>rich in fibrous stems<\/strong> that can be <strong>processed into<\/strong> a wide array of <strong>handbags<\/strong>, interior <strong>decorative material,<\/strong> table mats, baskets, and other products.<\/li>\n<li>It has been reported that this plant is a <strong>good phytoremediation species, <\/strong>suggesting it has the<strong> ability to trap and remove toxic metabolites<\/strong> and harmful <strong>heavy metals from water.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Water Hyacinth FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1<\/strong>. Why is water hyacinth harmful?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. Water-hyacinth blocks waterways and limits boat traffic, recreation, flood control and wildlife use<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2<\/strong>. Why is water hyacinth called the Terror of Bengal?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. Water hyacinth is called the &#8220;Terror of Bengal&#8221; due to its highly invasive nature and the severe environmental and economic problems it causes in the region.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q3<\/strong>. What is water hyacinth good for?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. The water hyacinth collected can be used to feed animals, or processed to improve the soil, as compost or biochar.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/pune\/chronic-blanket-of-water-hyacinth-smothers-mula-river\/articleshow\/119440371.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TOI<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Water hyacinth is a perennial, free-floating aquatic plant native to tropical regions of South America, and now present on all continents except Antarctica.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":27547,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-27546","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}