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Polish city is using mussels to monitor water quality (2020)
A city in Poland is relying on the mechanisms of mussels to safeguard its population from polluted drinking water.
It’s a handy mechanism for a notoriously polluted waterbody; the Warta River flows through some of the densest population areas in Poland, and some of the country’s oldest industrial zones. According to ZMEScience, the AquaNES project — supported by the European Union with the aim of integrating nature-based elements into water management systems — has been researching indicator organisms. The hard-working mussels have been celebrated in the documentary film, Gruba Kaśka, directed by Julia Pełka, which explores the use of biological indicators to service human systems.
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