{"id":115478,"date":"2020-11-05T18:22:28","date_gmt":"2020-11-06T02:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/israeli-anti-algae-technology-to-save-florida-waterways"},"modified":"2020-11-05T18:22:28","modified_gmt":"2020-11-06T02:22:28","slug":"israeli-anti-algae-technology-to-save-florida-waterways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/israeli-anti-algae-technology-to-save-florida-waterways","title":{"rendered":"Israeli anti-algae technology to save Florida waterways"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/israeli-anti-algae-technology-to-save-florida-waterways.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Florida will use <a href=\"https:\/\/bgtechs.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BlueGreen Water Technologies<\/a>\u2019 treatment to stop harmful algae blooms in Lake Okeechobee from reaching the state\u2019s waterways.<\/p>\n<p>Lake Okeechobee, also known as Florida\u2019s Inland Sea, is the state\u2019s largest freshwater lake. It has become overrun by cyanobacterial blooms (\u201cblue green algae\u201d) that render the water toxic for drinking and agriculture. It\u2019s also not safe to eat fish from the lake or to swim in its waters.<\/p>\n<p>Left untreated, cyanobacterial blooms can hijack all the resources in a lake or reservoir and turn it a dead aquatic zone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida will use BlueGreen Water Technologies\u2019 treatment to stop harmful algae blooms in Lake Okeechobee from reaching the state\u2019s waterways. Lake Okeechobee, also known as Florida\u2019s Inland Sea, is the state\u2019s largest freshwater lake. It has become overrun by cyanobacterial blooms (\u201cblue green algae\u201d) that render the water toxic for drinking and agriculture. It\u2019s also [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}