Using plants to purify canal waterResearchers outline a natural way to clean Italy's polluted Pontine Marshes
Peter Dizikes, MIT News Office
Just south of Rome lie the Pontine Marshes, a vexed part of the Italian countryside. In ancient times, Roman emperors tried unsuccessfully to drain the marshes, something only achieved in the 1930s through a system of massive pumps and canals that removed enough water to turn the area into productive farmland. Yet today those canals have become heavily polluted, endangering the area’s agriculture and the health of its residents.
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ReplyDeleteThis drawing is a very clear example of the relation between a thoughtfullness in a large territorial scale (like between watersheds in Jæren)and the importance of the smaller projects that in "a pattern that connects" present temporal sollutions, working in time, formulating the appearing landscape. Berger hit the right dynamics, so to speak.