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Water Wheel Article
There's life in groundwater
Published: 2005
Authors: Edith Webster
Abstract
In bodies of water beneath the surface of the Earth, are living organisms that need to be protected. It has taken dedicated scientific research and state-of-the-art technology to shed light on these organisms. Edith Webster reports. Sayomi Tasaki, a freshwater invertebrate zoologist-research scientist based at the Rand Afrikaans University (RAU) and focusing on groundwater ecology, working with the Water Research Commission and affiliated to the Department of Water Affairs & Forestry, abseils into a cave to investigate groundwater fauna.
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