# Weed Invaders - Saving India's Backwaters

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LIKE @ Facebook: facebook.com/oxlaey SUBSCRIBE on YouTube: youtube.com/user/oxlaey The Kerala backwaters are dying. They're being taken over by weeds, by an invasive species: water hyacinths. As Dr. Prabhu, from Sanatana Dharma College in Alleppey, explains - there is only one way to win... "Cockroaches or bedbugs or houseflies… My name is Dr. G. Nagendra Prabhu I teach in the Department of Zoology, Sanatana Dharma College. I use aquatic weeds, which are in abundance in these backwaters and try to find ways of utilizing them. The outside world and scientific community have already acknowledged these backwaters as a World Heritage site. And its a 900 square kilometer area. Marshy swamps, lowland areas, paddy fields, garden lands. Birds, there are migratory birds as well as normal birds. Fish, shrimps, mussels, clams - there are special clams which grow in this area. If you come in the morning, say at 11 o’clock, you will see lots of women doing their daily course. Washing clothes or washing vessels. Fishing or maybe you take a bath or something like that. What she catches will be for her lunch or for her dinner. When I was a small child, we only had country boats, and very few motorboats and no houseboats. People carry their boats, just in front of their houses. On your left will be a government jetty where people wait for government boats like a bus stop. You can see paddy being harvested and it is being taken. These are the types of original use.…

- Kind: Documentary
- Year: 2014
- Runtime: 3 min
- By: Oxlaey
- Genres: Documentary
- Archive: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Weed_Invaders_-_Saving_India%27s_Backwaters.webm)
- Licence or status: [CC BY-SA 3.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0) (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Oxlaey
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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