reptiles we gets next to one of them because this doesn t look right we will get rid of it. we ll go to this tool to help. david a pig course the tool the hunt he made himself. but if we use it to have his the water hyacinths. it s back breaking work then the boat gets stuck it takes david and robot ten minutes to get going again. now they re heading back to been indicted david s village is not too happy he s only hope for but the rain was hampered the walk. with his livelihood as a fisherman threatened by the invasive plants species didn t come up with the water hasn t put it together with the village bill does. he says it s about making
a pig course in the tool the hunt or glad he made it himself. but if we use it to have is the water hyacinths if. it s back breaking work then the boat gets stuck it takes david and robot ten minutes to get going again. now they re heading back to when in doubt it david s village is not too happy these boats only have four but the rain was hampered the work. with his livelihood as a fisherman threatened by the invasive plants species didn t come up with the water hasn t put it together with the village elders. he says it s about making a virtue of necessity the plan was to see if the water has things could be put to good use in some way as compost for example.
like the center of the water hyacinths a very versatile a can use their roots their lives and even just thames. water hyacinths defined germany or nukes signature style this is. simple but it takes me about a week to complete a mirror like this it s very delicate work it takes time and i have to work very meticulously i don t just use a brush and paint each individual element has to be cut out piece by piece p.s. just papias piece by piece piece by piece committal spends around ten thousand euros a year tackling the water has seen the problem in this region. that s all for today thanks for watching my name is and it was great to have you with us don t forget
mechanically ripping the weeds out, used to be enough of a tactic to manage this problem. but it s just not anymore. the problem is getting worse and worse. it s too environmentally ruinous to dump her by side in the water to kill the weeds. now stockton has come up with a genius new plan, hippos. i made jackie laugh. hippos was not their first idea. in november, stockton s mayor had suggested bringing in manatees from florida. to eat the water hyacinths in the river. apparently it s like their favorite food. they can eat 100 pounds of those weeds a day or something. manatees are impractical to be moved from florida to stockton. even though the stockton mayor suggested that idea. without the manatees, they have come up with the next best thing. so behold, stockton got hippos instead.
international freighter carrying cement from japan had to phone in a delay for the people who were waiting for them to drop that cargo at the port of stockton. the delay they had to phone in was a water hyacinth delay. there was this giant frickin ship carrying cement, that they couldn t get around the hyacinth weeds choking the port in order to get that stuff dropped off. mechanically ripping the weeds out, used to be enough of a tactic to manage this problem. but it s just not anymore. the problem is getting worse and worse. it s too environmentally ruinous to dump herbicide in the water to kill the weeds. now stockton has come up with a genius new plan, hippos. i made jackie laugh. hippos was not their first idea. in november, stockton s mayor had suggested bringing in manatees from florida. to eat the water hyacinths in the river. apparently it s like their favorite food. they can eat 100 pounds of those