(19 Jan 2025)
KENYA WATER HYACINTH
SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Naivasha, Kenya – 13 December 2024
1. Various of Simon Macharia and a fellow fisherman trying to ride a boat through water hyacinth on Lake Naivasha
2. Close up of fisherman removing water hyacinth stuck in the engine
3. Various of Macharia and fellow fisherman removing water hyacinth from a destroyed fishing net
4. SOUNDBITE (Kiswahili) Simon Macharia, fisherman:
"Long ago before the water hyacinth invaded, we used to get a good amount of fish because the breeding zones had not been affected by water hyacinth. When the water hyacinth affected the breeding zones, the fish decreased. We would catch up to 90 kilograms of fish per day but now since the breeding areas have been affected, we get between 10 kilograms and 15 kilograms."
6. Wide of Macharia and fellow fisherman harvesting water hyacinth
7. Various of Macharia harvesting water hyacinth
8. Various of harvested water hyacinth being transported on a boat
9. Wide of Macharia carrying a sack of water hyacinth
10. Various of Macharia sun-drying water hyacinth
11. SOUNDBITE (Kiswahili) Simon Macharia, fisherman:
"Since water hyacinth started growing in Lake Naivasha, we have tried getting a solution from the government but it was not possible. Then we found out about HyaPak. We harvest water hyacinth, dry it and send it to them. We do business with them. We sell to them and they pay us."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Nairobi Kenya – 18 December 2024
12. Various of a HyaPack worker putting water hyacinth in a machine
13. Wide of worker grinding water hyacinth
14. Various of shredded water hyacinth
15. Various of shredded water hyacinth being put in another machine to form slurry
16. Mid of Joseph Nguthiru, founder HyaPak Technologies, fetching water hyacinth slurry in a beaker
17. Various of Nguthiru spreading water hyacinth slurry in trays
18. SOUNDBITE (English) Joseph Nguthiru, founder HyaPak Technologies
"What we are trying to look at is, how do we use one problem which is water hyacinth to solve the other problem which is plastic waste pollution. And how we do this, is that we work together with fishermen who are affected at the lake and we contract them to harvest the water hyacinth for us, which they do then they dry it on site and transport it to our facilities."
19. Various of the slurry being sundried in a solar dryer
20. Various of HyaPak Technologies worker checking if the water hyacinth material is well dried
21. Various of the material being folded to make a seedling bag
22. Various of the seedling bags being packed
23. SOUNDBITE (English) Joseph Nguthiru, founder HyaPak Technologies
"We’re looking into spaces that have high plastic use but need to go sustainable and go green. And one of those places is agriculture where we have a lot of seedlings being packaged in plastic bags and we have our biodegradable bags that are inserted with the seedlings into the ground. As they decompose the release nutrients that accelerate the growth rate of plants as well as you reduce the amount of water used in irrigation."
24. Various of Nguthiru planting a tree seedling in the biodegradable seedlings bags
25. Various of tree seedlings in the biodegradable seedlings bags
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Naivasha, Kenya – 13 December 2024
26. Various of water hyacinth on Lake Victoria
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Nairobi Kenya – 17 December 2024
27. Various Gordon Ocholla, an environmental scientist
28. SOUNDBITE (English) Gordon Ocholla, environmental scientist, Mount Kenya University
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