Purves is very concerned about the glaciers in the Himalayan mountains that are the main source of waterforirrigation and drinking in China and India, well over 2 billion people.
Of greatest concern initially, the Keystone XL pipeline was designed to run through Nebraska's Sandhills, which lie above the Ogallala Aquifer, the main source of drinking water and irrigationfor millions of people.
"Using these plants, we will be able to remove radioactive nuclides from the water and make it clean forirrigation purposes or even as a source of drinking water, " says Slavik Dushenkov of Phytotech.