01/09/2014
The criminal gang stealing people's credit card details. James Whale attempts to give up sugar for the summer. How are Rutland Water dealing with a zebra mussel invasion?
Have you ever had your credit card details stolen? Inside out infiltrates one criminal gang stealing our cash.
91热爆 Essex breakfast presenter James Whale tries to give up sugar for the summer, or at least tries to keep within the Government's new guidelines. So no ice-cream or sweets, but can he enjoy a glass of chilled white wine? James shares his video diary and the results of medical tests carried out before and after his sugar-free summer.
Millions of invaders are playing havoc with our drinking water. David visits Rutland Water where they have spent 拢1.5 million pounds on a device to stop zebra mussels clogging up our water pipes and finds out how bio bullets could be the answer.
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Fact File - Zebra Mussels
Zebra mussels are an invasive species, that first arrived in the UK from the Caspian Sea 200 years ago.
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They can breed very quickly and a single female zebra mussel can produce 1 million eggs. The lavae can spread very easily. Our waterways are like a network of motorways.
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Once a body of water is infected, it鈥檚 virtually impossible to get rid of them. And they鈥檙e thriving because our waterways are now so much cleaner than they used to be.
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They affect eco-systems and cost millions of pounds to deal with.
Zebra mussels 鈥榮mother鈥� British native freshwater mussels and they die.
Infrastructure is dramatically affected by zebra mussels.听
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Anglian Water spends millions of pounds dealing with zebra mussels every year. They get sucked into inlet pipes at reservoirs and end up in the treatment works. At Rutland Water they鈥檝e had to spend 1.5 million pounds on a device called a 鈥榤ussel trap鈥�.
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The mussels are caught up in the trap and from there they are flushed out, on a weekly basis. If they aren鈥檛 flushed out, the treatment works would become clogged with the vast numbers of mussels.听
Every time they are flushed out, they end up in a large attenuation pool. At the time of filming, 10 tonnes of mussels were in the pool.
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Solutions?
A zoologist from Cambridge University is working on a natural substance that kills zebra mussels.听听
Dr. David Aldridge has developed a bio bullet, which is a powder that dissolves in the water. The zebra mussel ingests the substance that almost instantly kills them. The bio bullet is harmless to humans. The bio bullet is currently being tested.听听
In the meantime, people who use bodies of water, reservoirs etc, are being asked to always clean down their boating and fishing equipment when leaving, to try to halt the spread of the invasive species.
Invasion of the Zebra mussels
Inside Out's David Whiteley visits Grafham Water in Cambridgeshire where millions of听the invasive zebra mussels species are in danger of taking over. But what can be done to stop the spread of these foreign invaders?
David also travels to Rutland Water where 拢1.5 million has been spent on a trap to stop the zebra mussels clogging up water pipes.
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Credits
| Role | Contributor |
|---|---|
| Presenter | David Whiteley |
| Reporter | James Whale |
| Series Editor | Diana Hare |
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- Mon 1 Sep 2014 19:3091热爆 One East & Cambridgeshire only