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Description: From Satellite to Snout: How Central Arkansas Water Uses High-Tech and Low-Tech to...
From Satellite to Snout: How Central Arkansas Water Uses High-Tech and Low-Tech to Attack Nonrevenue Water
Abstract
Water utilities have made great strides in the last few years regarding water loss control. Now, an Arkansas utility has applied a promising new high-tech tool for identifying potential leak locations with a low-tech method. Everyone knows dog is man's best friend, but can it be man's best co-worker, too? In a time when everything seems high-tech, sometimes low-tech is just the innovation needed. Central Arkansas Water introduced Vessel, a black Labrador retriever mix, to its staff in the fall of 2019 to aid in leak detection. They now pair her nose with satellite imagery from Utilis to attack nonrevenue water.
Vessel is North America's first water leak detection dog! Rescued from a field in Louisiana and initially trained as a service dog through the Arkansas Paws in Prison program, Central Arkansas Water (CAW) hired Vessel and put her through drinking water leak detection training. Utilities in Australia and the U.K. had implemented such working dogs before Central Arkansas Water CEO Tad Bohannon decided to give it a try. Now more U.S. utilities are looking into the innovation. Vessel will do a live demonstration, and Bohannon and Vessel’s human, Leak Detection Specialist Tim Preator, will preview how CAW pairs the low-tech canine detection with high-tech satellite leak detection.
SpeakerBoozer, Chelsea
Presentation time
11:00:00
11:20:00
Session time
11:00:00
12:00:00
SessionData Accuracy in Asset Management
Session number209
TopicAsset Management, Intelligent Water, Policy and Regulation, Utility Management and Leadership
TopicAsset Management, Intelligent Water, Policy and Regulation, Utility Management and Leadership
Author(s)
Chelsea Boozer
Author(s)C. Boozer2; C. Bohannon1;
Author affiliation(s)Central Arkansas Water, Little Rock, AR1,2
SourceProceedings of the Water Environment Federation
Document typeConference Paper
PublisherWater Environment Federation
Print publication date Oct 2021
DOI10.2175/193864718825158030
Volume / Issue
Content sourceWEFTEC
Copyright2021
Word count17

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