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Keeping the water safe — UWM center scores grants to study bioterrorism
Milwaukee Business Journal – 10/20/2003
From zebrafish to underwater fiber-optic sensors, researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee's Center for Water Security are using several tools to help answer a growing concern: How does the community safeguard its water against bioterrorism?

They swim. They glow. And they could fight terrorism, thanks to Milwaukee scientists
Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel – 08/11/2003
The same Pentagon agency that considered creating a commodities market to predict terrorist attacks is paying local scientists to turn zebra fish into glowing detectors of chemical contamination in sources of drinking water.

MILWAUKEE: Drinking water defense lab opens
St. Paul Pioneer Press – 08/05/2003
MILWAUKEE — Scientists in the city that experienced the largest waterborne disease outbreak in the industrialized world are working to defend drinking water from terrorism.

 

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