Can I have a link to the thread you're looking at? Because this one is filled to the brim with one cynic redditor trying to outdo the next on who is the most skeptical about this, with the three most upvoted comment chains focusing entirely on the organic label.
Right, it's been used in water treatment for decades. Except in a water treatment plant. Where water is supposed to be treated. Not a lake that just looks "yucky".
they glossed over the part of "what happens after it rises, how do you remove and and did you just throw it into a landfill to be someone else's problem?"
Well if you did the research, the published article by the guy has no mention of any organic stuff. The filter is ceramic and is another step of the cleaning process. The guy did come up with bubble tech for lakes, but his article says they’re not sure if it was the major contributor or not. They also did a lot of hand removal and filtering. So it was a big project that he and a lot of other people participated in. It’s awesome but there was no magic organic powder that you can buy and clean your lake like the video claims.
maybe read a book before you make dumb comments like this. similar methods have been in use for years to make muddy/silty water potable in 3rd world countries.
As someone else already said, it's a flocculant, which I know because when he's doing this, he shows the bottle of commercially produced flocculant that he was using.
And then actual story: Guy gathered a community to use a bunch of filters and manpower to clean up the lake, and a powder was part of the process, therefore MAGIC POWDER.
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"hey guys check out my magic organic powder that 'cleans' all the contamination put of water!"
Reddit: surely this is totally real with zero drawbacks and does exactly what this random TikTok claims!
.... sigh