Green Options » cattails http://greenoptions.com/tag/cattails Posts tagged 'cattails' Sat, 16 May 2009 14:18:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Cattail Army Deployed to Fight Water Pollution http://cleantechnica.com/2009/05/16/cattail-army-deployed-to-fight-water-pollution/ http://cleantechnica.com/2009/05/16/cattail-army-deployed-to-fight-water-pollution/#comments Sat, 16 May 2009 14:18:08 +0000 Tina Casey http://cleantechnica.com/2009/05/16/cattail-army-deployed-to-fight-water-pollution/ Cattails can absorb arsenic and other pollutants from water.The lowly cattail is emerging as the weapon of choice against water contamination, and perhaps even global warming.  In addition to its use in large phytoremediation projects to absorb contamination from groundwater and wetlands, the cattail could also work in on a small, inexpensive scale, helping to reduce arsenic contamination in impoverished areas.  All this and biofuel, too?

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