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Shepherd, Montana inventor, Bruce Kania says floating islands will clean pollution. Floating Islands International

Some good ideas start with a stinking dog.

Not long after Bruce Kania bought a farm, he noticed a foul odor from his dogs that swam in the ponds and streams on the property.

His place is at the end of a 60-mile irrigation ditch, which is rich with nitrogen and phosphorous from fertilizer that has run off into the ditch and worked its way downstream.

Too much of those nutrients can mean too much algae, which can hamper the life of other tiny species, which in turn, reduces the prospects for insects, birds and fish.

Bad as it was, it got Kania thinking. Wasn’t there some way to get those excess nutrients out of the water?

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MIKE STARK
THE BILLINGS GAZETTE

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