Tackling water pollution with the water hyacinth plant
As part of an ONLINE series of lectures to mark International Awareness Days and as part of Festival of Teaching: the Challenge of Change, we are pleased to invite you on 22 March at 10.30am to speed lectures and a panel discussion with leading DMU scholars for World Water Day.
The water hyacinth plant has a very negative image as an undesirable weed but a weed is no longer a weed when human imagination can be applied to find a good use for it. Instead of fighting this amazing plant, we should find ways to live with it and make good use of it. At De Montfort University, research led by Professor Parvez Haris have been doing this by using the water hyacinth plant and its roots for cleaning polluted water, including removing highly toxic elements from a polluted river in Wales (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-29387-6). To celebrate World Water Day, Professor Parvez Haris and his team will present some of their research demonstrating the great potential of the water hyacinth plant for cleaning polluted water. This will include a number of brief lectures ranging from sustainable management of water hyacinth to its application in removing toxic elements from water and the design of a water hyacinth-based filter for household and community level use.
Places can be booked up to one hour before the event.
Registrants will receive a link to join the online talk 2 days before the event, via their provided email address.
Please contact the DMU Events Office on eventsoffice@dmu.ac.uk if you have any questions.