Less than two years after massive clean-up op, water hyacinth takes over large swathes of Ooty lake

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Water hyacinth has again spread across large areas of Ooty Lake, less than two years after a major cleanup operation. Local bird watchers report fewer birds, attributing the decline to an earlier cleanup that damaged sandbanks and reed beds used as habitat.

Local bird watchers have noted a drastic reduction in the bird population in the lake due to the unscientific clean-up that led to the destruction of sand banks and reed beds on which the birds had become dependent