"If we have like a factory somewhere, we'll be consuming a lot of hyacinth, " Agwanda said.
Water hyacinth grows into a thick bed of waxy leaves and violet flowers that cover the surface of the lake.
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In Tsou language, fona refers to the hyacinth bean, which comes from a perennial plant that grows well on barren soil and adverse conditions.
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Ochieng does not advocate the weavers' use of hyacinth, because transporting it from the lake to their homes could help the plant spread.
There was plenty else to see, however: jabiru storks, hyacinth macaws and black-collared hawks, as well as howler monkeys, giant otters, caimans and capybaras.
She would like to see support for the project and to have the resources for machinery that would help make thousands of meters of hyacinth rope each day.
"It goes all the way -- the furthest you can actually see, " said Philip Ochieng, a research scientist who is working with the government to mitigate the environmental problems caused by hyacinth.
As my eyes adjusted, I realized that this seemingly solid carpet of green was actually a large, dense grouping of water hyacinth, throbbing with electric blue and crimson dragonflies, spindly mottled spiders and monstrous ants.
Pushing back the greens a bit, I made room in the lower part of the arrangement for hits of the saturated blue of fragrant hyacinth and the lighter blue of the smaller grape hyacinth to reflect the tonal shifts in color of the sky and water in this idyllic scene.
The Aswan high dam, for example, is often cited as a cautionary example, a quixotic construction that now reduces the mighty Nile to a dribble before it trickles to the sea, leaving behind an explosion of water hyacinth, outbreaks of bilharzia, polluted irrigation channels and a build-up of sediment inland that would otherwise compensate for coastal erosion from Egypt to Lebanon.
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