The 8 most powerful sea sons in Poland: Can cut off the clean water of millions of people at any time

Access to clean water is also one of the essential and alarming needs around the world. This also causes a lot of headaches for the authorities because of clean water management.

But in Poznań, a city in the west of Poland, the Dębiec Water Treatment Plant is home to one of the most interesting and quirky secrets about water quality management in the world.

As we all know, pumping clean water to households in a crowded city will take place by many complicated stages and machines. Artificial and biological monitoring systems must ensure that the water pumped through city pipes is safe enough to drink without containing harmful chemicals.

However, a clean water treatment company called  Aquanet has said that the complex system is completely outdated. They believe that the biological mechanism of plants will measure the purity of water much more accurately than machines. To prove this to be true, they used 8 boys to measure the amount of clean water for the entire city of millions of people! 

Yes, this is completely serious. These biosystems consisted of eight mussels with thermal sensors attached to their shells . These eight sons will work alongside a computer network that has been given control of the city's water supply. If the water is clean, these mussels will continue to work hard. But when the water quality drops too low, they will close their shells, which means that the clean water supply to millions of people in the city will also. collapse!

The boys are tested

Installed directly on a boy

"System" is not too complicated

Whenever a mussel closes the case, it closes the circuit through a spring glued to the shell, which alerts the computer that it's time to turn off the water supply. The computer's next job is to monitor the parameters obtained through artificial sensors and generate an alert if something goes wrong. If four mussels shell together, it means that the water source is heavily polluted and the whole city is prepared. thirsty.

According to a report from AquaNES, a European Union project aimed at integrating nature-based elements into water management systems. They believe that the main source of water for the city of Poznań originates from the Warta River. The only problem here is that the Warta River passes through some of the country's most densely populated centers and some old industrial areas (where heavy industry has been around since the late 19th century). This creates a network through which pollution can enter the city's drinking water.

This has challenged scientists to find the answer to the extremely difficult question - how can the city of Poznań use clean water when the water source is already insecure? And the answer lies in the boys.

Mussels need clean water, enough oxygen and few physical or chemical impurities to grow. This indicates how sensitive they are to changes in water quality. When the water is clean and beautiful, mussels open their shells to feed - they filter the water and eat any organic matter they find. When water quality drops, they close their shells, sucking in air (their mouth) and slowing down their metabolism.

The use of mussels to measure automatic water supply systems has been tested at the Institute for Water Protection at A. Mickiewicz University and obtained quite positive results.