Phytoremediation : A great boon for developing countries to combat environmental

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I was coming back home from college. I had give a lecture on environmental pollution and its remedial measures in a developing country like India. I noticed a waterbody fully contaminated and eutrophicated. I quickly recapitulated my lecture on bioremediation. Phytoremediation is the use of certain plants to clean up soil, sediments and water contaminated with metals, organic contaminants like crude oil, solvents and polyaromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). It is the name for the expansion of an old process that occurs naturally in ecosystems as both inorganic and organic constituents cycle through plants. Different branches or factors are combined to select the proper plant and conditions for a specific site. Phytoremediation is an asthetically pleasing mechanism that can reduce remedial costs, restore habitat, and clean up contamination in place rather than entombing it in place or transporting the problem to another site. I wish to spread the use of phytoremediation so as to provide our future generations the greatest gift of a clean and healthy environment. I urge you all to discuss this issue with as many people as you can through this forum and any means. I welcome comments on this view and suggestions on the topic and latest development in this field