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水葫芦可被做成墙地砖   上海新闻午报　 2007年12月05日

目前只能人工打捞，变废为宝技术问题已解决

本报讯水葫芦第五次大规模入侵申城，今年势头之猛、数量之多为历年之最。市水管处积极协调各方力量打捞，黄浦江、苏州河干流打捞累计突破17万吨，并增3个临时拦截库，还将新增五六艘船加入打捞队伍，打捞上来的水葫芦仍采用填埋方式。尽管“变废为宝”技术问题基本解决，但要真正利用还有待政策等多方支持。疯长会破坏水域生态

　　市水域市容环卫管理部门有关人士介绍，水葫芦是引进物种，破坏性在于它的“疯长”，繁殖能力太强，几乎造成不可控制的局面。水葫芦太多，首先会造成视觉污染；其次会影响航道，轮渡不能停靠；不及时打捞，烂在水中，会增加水的富营养化程度，污染水质。

　　据分析，由于受到高温、台风、水体富营养化，以及没有“消化源”等因素影响，黄浦江干流区域有大量水葫芦集聚。近一周以来，黄浦江干流日平均水葫芦囤积量达到14395吨，峰值出现在11月25日达到24293吨，并呈上升趋势。黄浦江上游外省市各主要通航河道，出现满浜、成片等污染状态，对本市造成较大影响。将随水质改善而改善

　　除人工打捞外，有无其他对付手段或者根治办法？市水域市容环卫管理部门表示曾多方寻找治理方法，如甲壳虫是水葫芦天敌，如果投放甲壳虫后，水葫芦问题解决了，会否引起其他后果？投入抑制水葫芦药剂，又会污染水质。“目前，人工打捞是唯一可靠的控制方法。”

　　据介绍，在小的水域，也曾做过“哗啦圈”试验，即把河道圈定起来，不能向外飘浮。并让水葫芦浮在水面，净化水体，腐烂之前再捞出来，但这个办法并不适用于大的流动水域。

　　有关负责人认为，如果水质富营养化得到解决的话，水葫芦问题也会随之解决，但这需要长三角一起联手。

　　可被加工成炭或砖能否利用快速繁衍的特点，将水葫芦制成产品来利用？

本市首家利用水葫芦加工产品的水葫芦藤器绿色环保家具公司负责人胡先生介绍，水葫芦在技术上能被做成炭和墙地砖。他们公司从福建购买水葫芦，编成辫子可制成花瓶、台灯、家具等产品。尽管上海被打捞上来的水葫芦短而杂乱，仍然可被做成炭或墙地砖加以利用。据了解，这两项技术问题已经解决，但是如果启动还需政策支持。

记者|王红梅

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苏浙水葫芦大举“攻入”苏州河    2007-11-26    

水葫芦在黄浦江疯长，苏州河出现数公里长“绿带”———受气候影响，水葫芦“绿魔”正在黄浦江和苏州河泛滥。上海市水域发展环境有限公司有关负责人昨日表示，环卫工人已24小时连续打捞，目前打捞量较往年全年翻了一番，而且打捞压力仍然很大。有关人士呼吁社会关注，对水葫芦推出真正的治本手段。

　　“今年由于气候反常，台风频繁，水葫芦泛滥提前了一个多月。”市水域环境发展有限公司有关人士表示，来自苏浙两省蔓延过来的水葫芦，自9月下旬便出现在黄浦江上游，至今总打捞量已经超过15万吨。而且，像今年这样大规模漂进苏州河里的很少见。

　　对于黄浦江水葫芦堵塞影响轮渡停泊，市水域环境发展有限公司解释说，很多轮渡码头24小时营业，且往返大概只需十分钟，这就很不利于打捞。因为只有轮渡停航时环卫船才能正常作业。

　　“我们现在十分担心工人情况，他们身体十分疲惫，已很长时间没回过家了，辛苦程度达到往年3倍，”该负责人说，“像这样异常的水葫芦爆发情况，仅靠工人打捞只是治标，希望苏浙沪政府部门都能重视起来，运用科技等各种手段，才能真正治本。”据了解，公司现在一百多名工人和全部船只都已派出，并已向他公司借船。

　　专家分析，今夏周期较长，为水葫芦提供了良好生长机会。而频繁的台风助长其势头，导致原先散落于黄浦江各支流的水葫芦迅速漂移集聚在黄浦江和苏州河等地。本周上海将大幅降温，水葫芦繁殖速度有望减缓。但要基本绝迹，还要等到寒冬季节。

   来源：上海新闻午报 2007年11月26日

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水葫芦入侵外滩景观水域 Hyacinth intrudes the sightseeing area of the Bund 

上海新闻午报   记者|王红梅/|林舒菡     2007-10-29

本报讯绿油油的水葫芦散落江中随波逐流，这是记者在南外滩游艇码头附近水域看到的一幕。记者昨日获悉，水葫芦侵入外滩景观河道，经水域市容管理部门加紧打捞，大部分水面已恢复干净。据悉，由于今年水葫芦提前一个多月爆发，水域市容管理部门三艘船日均打捞3000吨，而往年此时仅几十吨。

　　据上海市水域环境发展公司有关人士透露，除少数支流河道外，本市主干河道几乎没有原生的水葫芦，大多数水葫芦都是从苏浙两省的河道顺流而下。今年，由于天气炎热加上两次台风影响，水葫芦早在9月20日就现身黄浦江上游的泖港，比往年早了一个多月。 　

　今年水葫芦来势凶猛，水域环境发展公司调集所有人手24小时不间断地作业，仍跟不上它疯狂的繁殖速度。有关人士表示，针对水葫芦的战斗可能将持续至深冬。

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福建宁德：水葫芦生产沼气试验获得成功   2007-09-25

核心提示：水葫芦和沼气之间怎么划等号？让水葫芦变废为宝，成为甲烷这种清洁可燃气体是否仅仅是个梦想，最近古田县农业技术人员把水葫芦与当前农村推行的新能源--沼气联系在一起，让水葫芦生产出了沼气，一起去瞧瞧。

   记者来到实验点的农户家中时，正好赶上农户在使用沼气煮菜，据农户介绍，以前他家使用煤气煮饭，每个月都要用一罐煤气，现在用沼气，一年可以省下不少钱，而且使用水葫芦生产沼气，原料的取得比较容易。

记者：这个就是用水葫芦生产出来的沼气？

沼气用户：全部用水葫芦放进去做的，四五天就可烧了，今天用了一个星期了。

记者：放进去几天后可以产气了？

沼气用户：四五天就可以烧了，我现在已经烧了一个星期了，感觉很好，非常好用，水葫芦完全可以用了。

    被列为“世界十大害草”之一的水葫芦在富营养化水体中，生长速度近乎疯狂。若不及时打捞，会覆盖水面，堵塞河道，影响航运，阻碍排灌，在汛期还会阻碍水流，腐烂后更会污染水质。针对水口、黄田闽江两岸的水葫芦资源比较多的情况，古田县能源办从解决目前沼气原料缺乏以及水葫芦污染问题出发，因地制宜，开展了水葫芦生产沼气的试验。

古田县农业局副主任科员黄有存：原来生产沼气主要是用人畜粪做为原料，发展受到一定限制，经过这次我们能源办积极地探索，水葫芦生产沼气成功后，沼气发酵原材料缺乏问题就得到解决了，今后我们农业局将在水口和黄田大力推广。

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New Life For Old Weeds 新的生活，为老杂草
To the untrained eye, water hyacinth is very pretty.向未受过训练的眼睛，水葫芦是很漂亮。 Its big round leaves give way to lovely pale violet flowers that look for all the world like the hyacinths that used to bloom early in spring in my garden in Canada.其大轮叶片让路给可爱苍白紫罗兰花朵寻找世界上所有像hyacinths用开花早在春天在我的花园在加拿大。 They don't have the lovely scent as far as I know, but then leaning over a canal to smell a flower isn't the best idea at the best of times.他们没有足够的可爱的气味，据我所知，但随后俯身一条运河，以嗅觉的花是不是一个最好的主意是最好的时候。 Most of the canals here have the plant growing in them and periodically they are dragged out and left at the sides of the canals for wandering goats and sheep to eat.大部分的运河在这里有植物生长，在他们并定期他们被拖了出来，并留在双方的运河为流浪山羊和绵羊吃。 Besides being pretty, I've been told that the plant also takes up heavy metals in the water, which probably doesn't make it the best animal feed in the world.除了漂亮，我已经被告知，电厂也占据了重金属在水，这可能是不让它成为最好的动物性饲料，在世界上。 To be honest, the goats seem to only nibble on the freshest leaves and then only if there isn't anything better to be had.我要老实，山羊似乎只有蚕食对新鲜叶片，然后只，如果没有什么更好的待了。
The downside of water hyacinth is that a lot of water is lost to evaporation from the leaves and it clogs the channels of the canals so that the water doesn't flow freely.坏处的水葫芦是很多的水是输给了蒸发，从树叶，它堵塞了渠道，运河，使水不自由流动。 Beautiful or not, it is a weed.美丽与否，这是一个杂草。 This morning I found an odd little item from the Shanghai Daily, a newspaper in China (bless Google News) that talks about a Chinese company coming to Egypt to manufacture furniture from the water hyacinth that grows in our canals.今天早上，我发现很奇怪的小标题，从上海日报，一家报纸在中国（保佑谷歌新闻）表示，会谈约一家中国公司来埃及，以家具制造，从水葫芦生长在我们的运河。 Apparently the weed itself is of superior quality in Egypt and the labour costs are low enough to make the investment a good thing.显然杂草本身的优越品质，在埃及和劳工成本低廉，足以使投资是一件好事。 I must confess to being a bit stunned at the idea that a Chinese company thought that Egypt would be a nice cheap place to manufacture something.我必须承认，作为一个有点震惊的想法一家中国公司认为埃及将是一个不错的廉价的地方生产的东西。 My second thought was to hope that someone puts some environmental safeguards on such a factory, not that Egypt is notoriously strict in that department, but China appears to be much worse.我的第二个思路是希望有人将一些环境保障措施，对这样一个工厂，而不是说，埃及是出名的严格，在该部的，但中国似乎要严重得多。 According to the article the manufacture of water hyacinth board does not involve the formaldehyde and other toxic chemicals that fiber board and plywood do.据这篇文章的制造水葫芦董事会并不涉及甲醛及其他有毒化学品，纤维板和胶合板做的。 I'd want to do a bit more research before I take anyone's word on that, but if true, this all sounds terrific.我想要做一点更深入的研究之前，我采取任何的字，就表示，如果报道属实，这一切听起来了不起。 We get rid of our weeds and have a new supply of wood for building furniture.我们摆脱我们的杂草和有一个新的供应木材的建设家具。 One of the problems for furniture makers here is the fact that we have to import all of the wood, since we have no forests.其中一个问题，为家具制造商这里是一个事实，即我们必须输入所有的木材，因为我们没有森林。 It all sounds, on the surface, like a nice fit.这一切听起来，从表面上看，就像一个好的适合。 Now let's hope the reality lives up to the press...but that's always the problem, isn't it?现在，让我们期待现实生活中最多的新闻… …但说的，始终是问题，不是吗？
    copyright 2007 Maryanne Stroud Gabbani版权2007年maryanne stroud gabbani

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Egypt isn't what it appears to be in the media...but that's no real surprise, since not much is. I moved here in the late 80's from Toronto, Canada, with my Canadian/Egyptian husband, my son and my daughter. The children adapted quickly and we decided that this country was a good place to live. Now I wouldn't change my home for anything.

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Monday, October 15, 2007

New Life For Old Weeds
To the untrained eye, water hyacinth is very pretty. Its big round leaves give way to lovely pale violet flowers that look for all the world like the hyacinths that used to bloom early in spring in my garden in Canada. They don't have the lovely scent as far as I know, but then leaning over a canal to smell a flower isn't the best idea at the best of times. Most of the canals here have the plant growing in them and periodically they are dragged out and left at the sides of the canals for wandering goats and sheep to eat. Besides being pretty, I've been told that the plant also takes up heavy metals in the water, which probably doesn't make it the best animal feed in the world. To be honest, the goats seem to only nibble on the freshest leaves and then only if there isn't anything better to be had.
The downside of water hyacinth is that a lot of water is lost to evaporation from the leaves and it clogs the channels of the canals so that the water doesn't flow freely. Beautiful or not, it is a weed. This morning I found an odd little item from the Shanghai Daily, a newspaper in China (bless Google News) that talks about a Chinese company coming to Egypt to manufacture furniture from the water hyacinth that grows in our canals. Apparently the weed itself is of superior quality in Egypt and the labour costs are low enough to make the investment a good thing. I must confess to being a bit stunned at the idea that a Chinese company thought that Egypt would be a nice cheap place to manufacture something. My second thought was to hope that someone puts some environmental safeguards on such a factory, not that Egypt is notoriously strict in that department, but China appears to be much worse. According to the article the manufacture of water hyacinth board does not involve the formaldehyde and other toxic chemicals that fiber board and plywood do. I'd want to do a bit more research before I take anyone's word on that, but if true, this all sounds terrific. We get rid of our weeds and have a new supply of wood for building furniture. One of the problems for furniture makers here is the fact that we have to import all of the wood, since we have no forests. It all sounds, on the surface, like a nice fit. Now let's hope the reality lives up to the press...but that's always the problem, isn't it?
    copyright 2007 Maryanne Stroud Gabbani