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Invasive foreign plant chokes Nigeria's rivers and dams

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Submitted by lalit on Tue, 2019-07-02 14:56

The water hyacinth is a foreign weed introduced in the early 1990s to Nigeria. Since then it has spread rapidly to two-thirds of the country's rivers.

thesaurus: 
Water Resources
Rivers
Dams
Invasive Alien Species
Nigeria
Africa
Main Topic: 
Water Resources
Name of the Newspaper: 
Al Jazeera
Mark Content Private(Internal): 
Clipping Type: 
DNB
External URL: 
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/07/invasive-foreign-plant-chokes-nigerias-rivers-hydroelectric-dams-190702075536557.html
Publication Date: 
02/07/2019