The heroic mollusks that guard the water supply of an entire city

Poland's cities, including Warsaw and Poznan, employ unusual teams of monitors to ensure that their water supply is safe to drink. Each water filtration plant has a crack team of eight mussels that tirelessly track the water entering the system, and have the authority to shut down the flow. — Read the rest
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