We Need Dem "Shrooms"

                Reading this article from a newspaper makes me extremely glad that people are still caring enough about the environment to find a way to purify polluted waters. This article talks about people using mushrooms to purify water by dumping multiple mushrooms in the water, and it would purify the water. This is either people looking out for the environment, or, like most people, just looking out for their own self-interests, because if they are anything like me, they do not want to be drinking any kinds of polluted or black water, since it just sounds plenty disgusting in general. In fact, my sister will not even drink water if there is anything in the cup before the water hits it, even if it was drinkable.

                This purification also affects many fish living inside of the lake; in fact, they do not recommend multiple servings of the fish in the water, due to the high pollution content of the water. After this mushroom experiment, it should become much safer for people to eat, and maybe even to swim in…if they want to start polluting it again. Only one problem I see with this is that if the mushrooms ever fall out of this bag and start growing, if it was not originally naturally from the area, it could easily become an invasive species, which kind of would defeat the original purpose, like many other invasive species that have been introduced. Along with this problem is if the coffee grounds were to be released, it also would just add to the pollution content. Not only this, but it also uses plastic bags to store these, and well, everyone should know the problem with throwing plastic into a river, it is called littering and usually punishable by law.

                This has not come out with any official results, because it still is being tested and recording the negative or positive effects on the environment, and hopefully if it would be efficient enough to be used ubiquitously across the United States. Not only would the time efficiency factor into this, but cost efficiency too, because if it costs too much to provide constant purification comparable to the environmental benefits. All in all, I think it is too early to determine whether or not this would be a good idea that should be used everywhere. Even if it does not work, they should continue to try and make it better or more efficient, because mushrooms grow quickly, and in itself should not be too harmful to the environment.