A Sensitive Nose Becomes a Key Technology for Sniffing Out Water Leaks

A specially trained retriever helps Central Arkansas Water find drinking water leaks and doubles as a public relations representative.

A Sensitive Nose Becomes a Key Technology for Sniffing Out Water Leaks

Vessel with her favorite object, a green tennis ball.

Officials at Central Arkansas Water decided in 2019 to get serious about leak detection. So they bought a dog.

“Dogs can identify lots of things,” says Douglas Shackelford, director of public affairs and communications. “They are trained to sniff and identify something,...

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