The Kerala State Pollution Control Board (PCB) has informed the National Green Tribunal (NGT) that multiple departments are involved in checking the menace of water hyacinths through the economic utilisation of the problem plant.
About 1,904 tonnes of the plant have already been transported for utilisation under the government’s Nava Keralam action plan implemented in various local bodies. The Centre for Research on Aquatic Resources, S. D. College, Alappuzha, is making value addition of water hyacinth through rural technologies.
The Kottapuram Integrated Development Society, Thrissur, is also working on natural fibre using water hyacinths, according to a report submitted by the PCB before the southern Bench of the tribunal on September 6.
