00:00So my dogs are trained in water lake detection. They're trained to detect the chlorine in drinking water.
00:06And we're here as part of the lake detection program within the councils in the region.
00:14The dogs are trained to detect water lakes up to 2.5 metres underground through soil with no visual on
00:20the surface.
00:21And we can pick up any types of lakes, from lakes on a water meter to lakes on mains, service
00:28valves, hydrants.
00:30The dogs are very capable and very fast and will cover about 10 kilometres a day of water maintenance.
00:40So basically I'm looking for lakes that might be happening on water mains
00:48that may be not visual to the public that are walking down the street.
00:52They're just starting to be under the ground.
00:54We want to really find them when they're small.
00:57A lot of people think, oh, like we want to find all these big water lakes and stop them.
01:01But the idea is trying to stop it, like save every drop.
01:04We want to make sure that there's only 1% of our water in the world that was available for
01:11drinking water.
01:12So it's really important for us to find every drop.
01:14And so these drugs are really, really good at finding those small lakes before they become a big problem.
01:20So let's find them out.
01:20Thank you very much.
