Could oysters help improve UK water quality?

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Could oysters help improve UK water quality?

Water Plus recruits Scottish school children to take part in first of a kind study, which aims to assess how oysters could help enhance water quality

Could expanded oyster beds play a crucial role in helping to enhance UK water quality? That is the question water retailer Water Plus is seeking to answer with a first of its kind study, which aims to...

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