The weed’s rapid growth rate creates chronic shortage of dissolved oxygen required by the water’s fauna and the flora [1, 2].
-Perna and Burrows [3] noted that the water hyacinth cover on water bodies reduces the gaseous exchanges that take place at the air–water interface and reduce the photosynthetic activity of submerged plants by hindering the penetration of the sun’s rays.
-Figure 1 shows the clogged Manyame river, one of the tributaries of Lake Chivero.