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This is a photo today from the california water blog, which is an excellent blog. and the california water blog, as you can see in this picture, it shows this pod of hippos that the city of stockton brought in to graze on the weeds around the big industrial port. they brought this herd of hippos from botswana. they radio tagged them so they don't lose them. they keep people far away, because the hippos don't much like people. other than that, it is apparently working like it is supposed to. hippos love delicious water hyacinths. they're helping stockton with their problem. stockton brought in ...

Stockton brought in a second slightly cuddlier hyacinth eater. these adorable little capybara in the river. see there in the foreground there? from brazil. being coaxed into the water by a bunch of uc davis water science students. they're giant swimming rodents that can eat 40 pounds of weeds per day. they negotiated with brazil somehow, got a bunch of them, and alongside those hippos, keep them apart. they're setting them loose hoping they're hungry, hoping it will make a dent in stockton, california's weed problem, freeing up some of that precious delta water for california's parched water s...