These unsung shellfish help protect the drinking water for half a million Minnesotans

Claire Carlson, MinnPost

FRIDLEY, Minn. — The setup looks like an unlikely combination between an aquarium and a robotics experiment.

At the bottom of a rectangular tank, 15 mussels sit nestled together, their round, dark brown shells nearly indistinguishable from smooth river rocks if not for the slightly agape crack between their shells…

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