{"id":220134,"date":"2018-05-31T00:35:31","date_gmt":"2018-05-31T04:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/?p=220134"},"modified":"2019-02-09T16:24:43","modified_gmt":"2019-02-09T21:24:43","slug":"saving-ethiopias-lake-tane-from-a-dangerous-weed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/220134","title":{"rendered":"Saving Ethiopia’s Lake Tana from a dangerous weed"},"content":{"rendered":"

The campaign to save Lake Tana, Ethiopia’s largest lake and the source of Nile river, from a dangerous weed is intensifying with the recent purchase of a modern machine by Global Coalition for Lake Tana Restoration<\/a>, an organization that is formed by Ethiopians in the Diaspora.<\/p>\n

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\nThe water weed, known as hyacinth<\/a>, has so far consumed over 50,000 hectares<\/a> of Lake Tana and growing.<\/p>\n

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The local government has mobilized 162,000 volunteers to fight off the invasive weed, but it has been a losing fight without applying modern machines, chemicals, and biological measures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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