Highly trained leakage detection dogs are helping Portsmouth Water to find hidden leaks - this includes its newest four-legged recruit, Kilo, who on just his second day on the job successfully identified a leak on a major 18-inch trunk main near Chichester.

Severn Trent has been trialling new drones technology which could help detect leaking pipes from hundreds of miles away.

NI Water has issued a Request for Information (RfI) general market enquiry to identify and engage with suppliers who can deliver leakage detection support services to NI Water.

Scottish Water is using sniffer dogs to help find leaking water mains in some rural areas in Scotland - the dogs have recently successfully identified hard to find hidden leaks with the discovery of 21 suspected leaks in the Borders and East Lothian.

NI Water has gone out to tender with a contract for the provision of leakage detection services across Northern Ireland.worth an estimated £32.5 million-plus.

Yorkshire Water will partner with Hydraulic Analysis and Morrisons Water Services as part of a programme to deliver a £28 million investment to help meet its target of halving leakage by 2050.

Portsmouth Water has driven down the amount of water lost through leaks to the lowest on record for a UK water company.

Round-the clock data from nearly 450,000 smart meters across the capital has helped Thames Water find and repair a record number of leaks, hit its regulatory target and reduce overall leakage from its 20,000 mile network of pipes by 15 per cent in just one year.

Yorkshire Water are partnering with Arqiva and Sensus, a Xylem brand, in a second smart meter trial in Sheffield, which they hope could play a key role in their leakage reduction strategy, ensuring security of supply into the future and saving up to 250,000 litres of water per burst.

Thames Water has repaired an invisible leak deep underground in central London which was losing up to three million litres of water a day – one of the biggest leaks the water company has ever found.