Can mussels protect a city's drinking water? In Minneapolis, they do.

Neptune's Bivalve Toxicity Detection System (BTDS) leverages a community of mussels as living biosensors, monitoring shell movement up to 10x per second to detect aquatic toxicity in real time and enable rapid operational responses before a contamination event becomes a crisis.

Two thousand feet below Chaffee County's ranchlands, water heated by ancient granite rises slowly toward the surface, a journey that can take decades, sometimes centuries. It's the same water that fills the pools at Mount Princeton and Cottonwood, carrying with it the mineral warmth that has drawn soakers to this valley for generations. Now, as engineers map the county's geothermal potential for utility-scale power, the community finds itself weighing an unusual trade-off: trading a sliver of that ancient, unhurried heat for something the whole grid can share. The answer, it turns out, depends less on how much energy lies underground and more on how carefully we choose to take it.

Neptune is proud to sponsor American Ground Water Trust for the upcoming conference in Midland, Texas! Our very own Kevin Pérez is presenting on Addressing Uncertainty to Improve Decision Making in Water Models in West Texas.