Snail Plumbing

Headline: “Snail water supply” - a unique invention or the future of the city?

If you've ever driven along city streets, you've noticed that sometimes if you open a car window a little, you can get splashed with water or even mud. Someone else suggests turning on the air conditioning. But the best solution is to just close the window and not get annoyed by such nonsense. But this is what many people think every day. Why is it that on the streets of our cities you can find dirty puddles where trees wither and the asphalt sometimes gives off radiation. Why is it necessary to fight this problem? Firstly, dirt contributes to air, water, and soil pollution, creating favorable conditions for the proliferation of microorganisms. Secondly, dusty gas and wet asphalt worsen the working conditions of people on the street and negatively affect their health. Due to pollution of water bodies, the quality of drinking water and the quality of “aquatic life” of aquafauna in lakes and rivers are reduced. In addition, all this is very harmful for pets. Together with decomposition products, dust accumulates in the room, rising into the air and falling again there, onto the floor, furniture and equipment. Insufficient ventilation only makes the situation worse. This is why it is very important to get rid of this dirt! Air pollution itself began at the beginning of the last century, when the first “chemical factories” spread around cities. Even today, almost every year the atmosphere becomes more and more



The snail's aqueduct is one of the most amazing and mysterious organs of the body of various species of snails, which ensures reliable transportation of water in and out of the snail's body, as well as providing its body with all the necessary nutrients and protective agents from the environment.

The snail's aqueduct begins at the back of the body, where the intestines intersect with the lower part of the exoskeleton, and ends at the front of the head between the shells.