Queensland’s Water Authority has found a new use for our favorite four-legged friends.
Queensland Urban Utilities managed to train two sniffer dogs, in six months, to detect leaks in pipeline networks up to 9 000 kilometers long.
The dogs are trained to detect chlorine from treated tap water and the smell the dogs need to identify beneath soil and pipes comes in an average of just 0.2 to 0.3 milligrams per litre.