K9PDA 2026 Water Infrastructure Innovation Workshop

One Utility Challenge. Two Professions Solving It Together.

Somewhere under every water system, there's a leak that hasn't been found yet, and no single profession has the full picture of where it's hiding. Water professionals understand the infrastructure, the operations, and what a real loss event costs a utility. Detection dog professionals understand odor movement, canine behavior, and how a trained team actually finds what can't be seen. Neither side usually gets the other's half of the story. This workshop puts both in the same room, working the same problem.

The 2026 Water Infrastructure Innovation Workshop is built around a single, real-world utility case study, not a sales pitch for one technology. Over three days, participants step into an active investigation as it unfolds. You'll receive the same system data, field reports, maps, canine observations, and verification results a utility team would actually work from, and as new information comes…