Murcia Turns Its Irrigation Pipes Into an Intelligent Warning System to Stop the Zebra Mussel Before Its Filaments Destroy the Irrigation Fields

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Murcia has launched a pilot project in La Puebla de Mula that combines probes to measure the pH, conductivity and temperature of the water with automatic pressure cleaning filters. The idea is to act before a colony of zebra mussels or Asian clams ends up reducing the pressure and forcing to stop an irrigation network. The important advance is not in promising the disappearance of the plague, something that can not be guaranteed today, but in ch…