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News Briefs: Regional Manager Calls Cocker Spaniel 'Invaluable Asset' for Leak Detection

In this week's sewer and water news, a utility releases a video of a cocker spaniel sniffing out water leaks; and a study questions the sustainability of "shade balls" as a water conservation approach

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United Utilities in northwest England loses a reported 116 million gallons per day from leaks, and it recently turned to a 21-month-old cocker spaniel named Snipe it has been training since last year to try and...

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