Hundreds of different boats formed part of the Vaal River reopening launch. Photo: Sifiso Jimta. VANDERBIJLPARK – After months of battling a severe water lettuce contamination that threatened to ...

Vigorous attempts are under way to remove the offending water lettuce from the Vaal River, typically driven by public anger, sometimes manifesting as industrial-scale action. But this will result in a ...

A number of businesses and homes along parts of the Vaal River were affected by water lettuce. Picture: Xanderleigh Dookey Makhaza/Eyewitness News In that time, approximately 139 hectares of life ...

Getting rid of the Vaal River’s dreaded water lettuce – or Nile cabbage as it is also known – may be a relatively simple matter of breathing new life into the marine system with trillions ...

In early February, AfriForum, together with several other organisations, businesses and community members, removed more than 1 623 tonnes of water lettuce from the Vaal River.

Rand Water on Thursday released the first batch of weevils and hoppers as biocontrol agents to start eliminating the invasive water lettuce in the Vaal river. The programme, which formed part of ...

Water lettuce (Pistia stratiotes L.), also known as Nile cabbage, is a free-floating aquatic plant from the family Araceae, the same family as the a. Tuesday, 02 January 2024 12:17 GMT.

Leslie Hoy, the Vaal River project manager, expressed his team’s delight at reducing the coverage of water lettuce and water hyacinth—previously a significant problem affecting the entire Vaal ...

In early February, AfriForum, together with several other organisations, businesses and community members, removed more than 1 623 tonnes of water lettuce from the Vaal River.

Water lettuce was first identified on a tributary to the Vaal River in 2021, but local conditions (floods and cold winters) appeared to have limited the spread of this plant.

“The Vaal River is not just a vital water source; ... Several factors have converged into a perfect storm that has led to the out-of-control expansion of water lettuce across the Vaal Barrage, ...

Water lettuce was first identified on a tributary to the Vaal River in 2021, but local conditions (floods and cold winters) appeared to have limited the spread of this plant.