Scientist suggests environmental friendly idea to cure Reflecting Pool algae

[allegorical oracle]

“Chemical and mechanical solutions are only temporary fixes. When the Reflecting Pool is drained and filled again, there’s a good chance that algae will bloom again,” Eric Palkovacs, a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, wrote in The Conversation.

The pool’s size and shallowness means the water heats rapidly in direct sunlight, ideal conditions for algae growth — and a problem that may be compounded by newly applied “American flag blue” paint.'

Palkovacs, who studies inland bodies of water, wrote that introducing water fleas —a species of zooplankton known as Daphnia — into the roughly 2,000 foot pool, “can control algae by consuming it before it becomes a pea soup nuisance.”

Beyond their appetite for unsightly green growth, water fleas possess a notable ability to adapt to harsh conditions, making them particularly well suited for algae control in urban ponds contending with heat, pollution, and other stressors, Palkovacs added.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/reflecting-pool-algae-scientist-fleas-b3008347.html