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Here’s How Nano-Bubbles Refine Polluted Waters


Sun 06 Jan 2019 | 04:41 PM
Norhan Mahmoud

By: Norhan Mahmoud 

CAIRO, Jan. 6 (SEE)- Marino Morikawa, a Japanese-Peruvian scientist, blew everyone’s minds when it took him only 15 days to bring life back to his childhood lake at El Cascajo in Chancay, a district north of Peru’s capital Lima, using nanotechnology.

Thanks to social media, Morikawa’s work has been taking the internet by storm after shooting an impressive video with NAS Daily documenting his breakthrough. 

It all started in 2010, according to Spain’s News Agency EFE, when he received a phone call from his father alerting him that El Cascajo was in “a very bad condition.” News was shocking to the scientist, who was pursuing his PHD degree in Japan at the time, thus he decided to return to his homeland to put an end to this mess!

As per the EFE, Morikawa invented a nano-bubbling system, made up of bubbles 10,000 smaller than those in a soda beverage, that transfixes viruses and bacteria before totally combating and fading them amidst a 4-6 hours process. He also designed clay biological filters that hold pollutants to the surface to be decomposed by bacteria. 

Morikawa’s attempt was successful and once again migratory birds flocked to the lake on their way from Canada to Patagonia. 

Interestingly, the solution used in this process is totally organic and even edible. “Nature does its job. All I do is give it a boost to speed up the process," Morikawa told the EFE. 

Meanwhile, both South America’s largest lake ‘Titicaca’ and ‘Huacachina Lagoon’ are the top priorities of the determined scientist- keep it up Morikawa!