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Duckweed poses no harm to Shaanxi lake water quality
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Jinwei Lake, in Baoji of northwest China's Shaanxi Province, has recently been found to contain an increasingly bigger amount of duckweed, the Chinese Business View reported on Thursday.

Jinwei Lake, covered by green aquatic plants, is pictured on Thursday, May 21, 2009. The lake, known as the lung of city Baoji of Shaanxi Province, had its water quality affected by the rapid growth of algae previously, in 2007. [Chinese Business View]

Jinwei Lake, covered by green aquatic plants, is pictured on Thursday, May 21, 2009. The lake, known as the lung of city Baoji of Shaanxi Province, had its water quality affected by the rapid growth of algae previously, in 2007. [Chinese Business View] 

Though not like algae that would affect the water quality, the rapid growth of duckweed also caused big concern from the public over another possible algae attack on the water of the lake, which is known as the 'lung of the city' of Baoji.

However, an official from the Jinwei Lake management office said in an earlier statement that the quality of the lake water won't deteriorate and duckweed can on the contrary purify the lake water as duckweed is a delicious food for fish.

According to the report, the rapid growth of duckweed in the lake is caused by an increasing amount of nutrition in Jinwei Lake under hot weather.

The lake is located in the centre of Baoji and covers an area of 1.4 million square meters. It is a popular recreation area for the locals.

(CRI May 21, 2009)

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