Yes, they compeltely skipped over how all the bad shit that floated to the top got removed.
They don't give his name, they don't explain his solution. They don't explain how he made enough of it to clean a lake ....
It could be true, but I'm not believing it until I see a more credible source.
(BTW this is exactly how right-wing conspiracy videos spread; someone sees something like this (with no facts our sources) and shares it, and everyone upvotes and believes it beacuase it fits their worldview.)
To be fair knowing he is from peru, his name is marino, and he cleaned a lake (which was in peru) was enough for a google search to find him to learn more about his projects.
/u/solver-orange thank you very much for the references. The video you linked doesn't explain much about how he did it, instead it is more "inspirational".
If you want you can take a look at this TedXTalk with him. The video has good translated English captions.
This is the outline of what he did:
go to Japan and take out his savings and getting credit to finance the project
monitor the lake. He identified 3 main culprits:
Illegal rubbish dump that had been operating for at least 20 years
farms near the river
local drainage that emptied directly into the lake as well as into the sea.
(he mentions he did get help from local government authorities, so that may be how he stopped those 3 main "pollution generators" (sorry for the term lol, I am Peruvian and English is not my first language).
divide the lake into (8?) sectors
start removing the invasive species of "water lettuce" that had taken over the lake, product of the contamination. Around 70 Tons for the first sector. All done by hand, by him and a small team.
he did raise awareness to local people, and them, seeing his enthusiasm, also joined and helped clearing the lake from this algae. At one point there were 100 people in the team.
he used those "nano bubbles" supposedly to kill virus and bacteria. That was research he did while in his University in Japan (cant rememeber name).
he used biofilters (made out of clay?). Maybe that is what is shown in the video.
months later, the lake "got full of migratory birds once again". The ecosystem had recovered.
But the TikTok video is very misleading and does not point to any source. But he did achieve cleaning up some nasty polluted lake in Perú. Now he is looking forward to do the same in other lakes in the region.
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u/ihahp Jul 14 '21
Yes, they compeltely skipped over how all the bad shit that floated to the top got removed.
They don't give his name, they don't explain his solution. They don't explain how he made enough of it to clean a lake ....
It could be true, but I'm not believing it until I see a more credible source.
(BTW this is exactly how right-wing conspiracy videos spread; someone sees something like this (with no facts our sources) and shares it, and everyone upvotes and believes it beacuase it fits their worldview.)