PROTECTING OUR WATER MAKES SCENTS

Empowering canine-handler teams to protect drinking water systems through innovative training, research, and outreach.

What we do

Mission:
The mission is rooted in environmental stewardship, infrastructure resilience, and creating meaningful work for both dogs and people.
To educate and certify professionals in canine-based water leak detection, advance research in scent-based infrastructure monitoring, and raise public awareness through seminars, workshops, and outreach programs.

Vision:
A world where trained dogs help conserve water and protect infrastructure through innovative detection methods and community engagement.

Why Dogs?

  • A dog’s sense of smell is between 1,000 and 100,000 times more sensitive than that of humans.

    A dog can smell a person from 12 miles away and can detect it’s objective 40ft underground.

    A dog can smell 1-2 ppt which equals 1 drop in 20 Olympic sized swimming pools.

  • Working as a team, the dog and handler can cover miles of water main in short periods of time. A dog can cover about ½ mile an hour, marking spots where the dog has indicated and continuing on. Distribution crews will then investigate where the dog has marked. The dog can detect with 95% accuracy, within a 2 ft radius.

  • Dogs can work effectively in adverse conditions that may not be suitable for acoustical equipment. Wind can actually help the dog pinpoint the leak by funneling the scent into a line or cone that the dog can follow.

    Dogs can work alongside busy highways and heavy equipment, and varies different terrain. Dogs can even detect chlorinated water in water.

    • United States average treated drinking water loss estimated at 6 billion gallons per day.  (ASCE, 2025) Note: the average cost for the US is 3 cents/10 gallons = $18 million dollars per day

    • 2 DOGS saved over $14 million dollars for water loss their FIRST YEAR of working

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