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OneWater Reflections
Big Questions

Accelerating change on world water day

This year on March 22, we’re joining the U.N. and partners across the globe to celebrate World Water Day and raise awareness of the water and sanitation crisis that still affects millions of people worldwide. The theme of World Water Day this year is Accelerating Change and that really resonates with me and our whole water team at Jacobs because that’s what we do every day. We’re supporting our clients with critical projects and programs that improve water services in our very own communities. What makes this World Water Day even more significant is the launch of the U.N.’s Water Action Agenda. This collaborative agenda is being launched at the U.N. Water Conference this week in New York. It’s the first U.N. conference focused on water in 50 years and it represents a once-in-a-generation opportunity for us to collaborate on water solutions. We’re committed to Accelerating Change at Jacobs by amplifying our sustainability practices with PlanBeyond 2.0, in which we’ve aligned our activities with the U.N.’s Sustainable Development Goals. One of these is SDG6 – ensuring water and sanitation for all. Our target at Jacobs is to improve water equity in water-stressed regions by 2025 through new and existing partnerships. We’re proud to partner with groups like Water For People and the US Water Alliance that are working to improve water and sanitation access and promote equity in the water sector. At Jacobs, we recognize that all water has value. With a OneWater mindset, we look beyond traditional labels –

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Water is life: A Q&A with Rich Nagel

Jacobs Vice President and Client Account Manager Rich Nagel has spent his 35+ year career focused on water challenges in southern California, where he now advises clients on water conservation and reuse solutions. Get to know more about Rich and his passion for water reuse in this Q&A.

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Inside Jacobs’ digital factory: A Q&A with the team behind Viewpoint, a data insights tool

When consulting on projects for clients in fields such as infrastructure or transportation, huge amounts of data can be generated during the survey and consultation phases. To accelerate the ability to draw insights out of all that data, Jacobs’ Digital Factory team has developed a tool called ViewPoint which uses natural language processing (NLP) algorithms to assign themes and greatly truncate the timeframe to actionable intelligence.

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Careers network: Amanda Roach’s story

Wellbeing is foundational to everything we’re able to do and accomplish. We continually evaluate our wellbeing programs and benefits to best support our people – and we’re sharing stories of how these programs and tools are helping each of us individually be at our best, so we’re able to do more – together. In this feature, we connected with Amanda Roach to see how she found a sense of belonging with one of our employee networks, The Careers Network.

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Product development in age of digital disruption: a Q&A with Paul Roberts

For this feature, we caught up with Paul Roberts, our manager of digital products in the Australia-New Zealand region, to understand how digital products align with Jacobs’ vision to become a global solutions advisor and provider and how data solutions help leverage the power of digital and data to help solve the world’s most critical challenges.

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Thought Leadership

Introducing digital OneWater

Jacobs’ Global Water Director Susan Moisio explains why data and digital solutions are central to our OneWater philosophy.

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Thought Leadership

PFAS: Navigating the new drinking water health advisories

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recently released new drinking water Health Advisories for four per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), including much lower levels for two common compounds. Jacobs assesses the implications in a new guidance document.

Health Architecture Q&A with Megan Reading Section Leader - Architecture, Australia
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Designing a better quality of life: A Q&A with Megan Reading

In this Q&A we catch up with Jacobs’ Australia Section Leader – Architecture in Brisbane, Megan Reading, ahead of the Victorian Healthcare Week (VHW) conference where she’ll be moderating a discussion on the role of co-design in the healthcare infrastructure sector.

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Health Infrastructure Q&A with Shari Blanch Designer & Lead Health Researcher, Australia
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Talking once-in-a-lifetime opportunities: A Q&A with Shari Blanch

In this interview we catch up with Jacobs’ Designer and Lead Health Researcher Shari Blanch ahead of the Australasian Health Design Conference in Melbourne where she’ll be co-presenting her research on the post occupancy evaluation process in Australia and New Zealand.

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