Water
Water is one natural resource we all share – it shapes our lives, our communities, our ecosystems and the Earth’s climate. But managing this essential resource has never been more complicated. From climate change to emerging contaminants, our clients are facing unprecedented challenges as they work to provide critical water services and protect their communities and the environment.
At Jacobs, our planners, engineers and scientists work with our clients every day to solve their water challenges with customized, innovative solutions and new ways of thinking. We recognize that water challenges are complex and interconnected, and that the old ways of managing the water cycle in silos cannot keep pace with the issues we all face. Our approach is through a OneWater lens – viewing all water as resource and developing integrated, holistic solutions that provide comprehensive benefits.
我们在整个水循环和项目生命周期(从规划和咨询到施工)的行业领先能力支持我们的OneWater方法 design-build and operations. Our complete technical expertise includes drinking water & reuse, wastewater, water conveyance & storage, water resources and digital solutions.
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# 1
in Sewer & Waste, Sanitary & Storm Systems, Wastewater Treatment Plants, Water Transmission Lines (Engineering News-Record)
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9 K+
visionary water teammates globally
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2015
awarded Stockholm Industry Award for potable reuse and public acceptance
“With a OneWater approach we view all water as a valuable resource, not as stormwater, wastewater or drinking water, but as one water resource that we use, reuse and manage holistically. From water reuse in California to overflow control in London to total water management in Singapore, with a OneWater mindset, our teams are working to protect communities, industries and regions and provide them with the water resources they need to flourish and expand.”
OneWater
OneWater is an integrated and collaborative approach to understanding and solving complex water challenges — not only those that we face today, but also those we will face tomorrow. We look beyond traditional labels – drinking water, seawater, wastewater, stormwater – to view all water as a valuable and interconnected resource. We take a holistic view of the water cycle to break down water management silos and facilitate collaboration between different stakeholders, enabling complex regional and watershed solutions like water reuse and integrated catchment management.
Our OneWater approach is guided by three principles:
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All water has value
We look at the water cycle holistically to discover what makes each watershed, each community and each water-related challenge unique.
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Water challenges are interconnected
We recognize water’s connections to land, food and energy to solve complex water management and community challenges, not only those we face today, but also those we will face tomorrow.
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Water solutions must be sustainable, inclusive and equitable
We focus on inclusive planning, considering the needs of all those who influence or are influenced by water, and prioritizing solutions that benefit people, the environment and the economy.
How do OneWater approaches benefit your community?
- Maximizing investments by implementing solutions that address multiple interconnected challenges and provide meaningful co-benefits.
- Engaging the full range of community stakeholders, including customers, businesses and public officials, to find opportunities for successful partnerships and promote local workforce development and social equity.
- Identifying future actions and investments focused on climate adaptation and resilience, including tackling water scarcity and urban flooding with integrated water management practices.
- Incorporating Jacobs’ domain-driven innovation and technology, including Digital OneWater — our ecosystem of integrated data-enabled solutions.
- Recognizing the circularity of local economies and repurposing traditional waste as a valued resource (such as using biosolids to produce energy, using reclaimed water to augment potable water supplies, or integrating stormwater in functional landscapes.)
- Consolidating plans, policies and ordinances that benefit multiple utility services while supporting economic growth and redevelopment.
“At Jacobs, we recognize water’s role in the natural cycles of our planet; its connections to land, food, and energy; and perhaps most importantly, its influence on our cities, our societies, and our cultures. We use this perspective to help our clients implement integrated solutions to solve the most pressing water management challenges.”
Our solutions
我们在整个水循环和项目生命周期(从规划、咨询到设计、建造和运营)的行业领先能力支持我们的OneWater方法:
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Drinking Water & Reuse
无论是设计先进的水处理设施,还是实施创新的饮用水回用计划,或是咸淡水或海水淡化厂, we’re not just treating water, we’re giving communities, industries and regions the resource they need to flourish and expand.
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Water Conveyance & Storage
From the conveyance and storage of treated and raw water to the collection of wastewater, reclaimed water and stormwater, Jacobs provides a variety of urban conveyance and storage solutions for projects of all sizes, incorporating sustainability and adapting to changing environmental conditions in every project.
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Water Resource Recovery
While we didn’t invent today’s modern sewerage systems, we understand that all water – even wastewater – is a precious resource and not something we should simply dispose of; and therefore, we take the total water cycle into consideration when engineering solutions and developing cutting-edge technologies to collect, reclaim and reuse wastewater.
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Water Resources
As our world struggles with balancing water availability and demands, water pollution, competition for limited water resources and vulnerability to natural hazards, 雅各布斯与全球各地的客户合作,更好地管理世界水资源,使我们的水系统更能适应气候变化——因为我们相信,社区安全是很重要的, reliable water infrastructure now and in the future.
Our projects
Jacobs delivers tailored solutions worldwide. Our global portfolio of projects has supported clients with addressing dynamic issues like aging infrastructure, impacts from climate change, water scarcity, flooding and affordability. The solutions we develop in collaboration with our clients provide communities with the foundations they need to flourish and grow.
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Donald C. Tillman Advanced Water Purification Facility (AWPF)
Jacobs已被洛杉矶卫生与环境部(LASAN)和洛杉矶水电部(LADWP)选为Donald C的渐进设计建造承包商. Tillman Advanced Water Purification Facility (AWPF). 该项目是洛杉矶市长期水管理目标的关键部分,该目标是充分再利用其供水,是该国最大的饮用水再利用项目之一.
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Reimagining Rikers Island Infrastructure and Landscape
雅各布斯正在与纽约市环境保护部(DEP)合作,研究将四个老化的废水资源回收设施整合成一个位于纽约里克斯岛(Rikers Island)的最先进的、日产10亿加仑的新设施的可行性.
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St. Petersburg, Florida
Jacobs worked with the City to develop a capital program that addresses St. Petersburg’s challenges today and into the future – including utilizing stormwater as a resource. A OneWater, consolidated and integrated approach will result in cost savings from economies of scale as well as regional collaboration opportunities. OneWater is a sustainable approach to long-term utility planning that considers the potential impacts resulting from climate change; salt water intrusion; infiltration and inflow; clean energy usage; greenhouse gas reduction; regional construction coordination; and mitigation of surface water impacts. It requires the City to rethink how capital priorities are set. Utility systems cannot be considered in silos any longer.
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One Calgary, OneWater
Working with the City of Calgary’s water utility, Jacobs is evaluating potential impacts of drought on various systems as part of the “One Calgary, OneWater” framework. In addition to assessing infrastructure systems for Canada’s third largest city – water supply and distribution; wastewater collection and treatment; stormwater and green infrastructure – the team assessed the vulnerability of meeting municipal agricultural and environmental demands; utility financial and governance systems, customer and community systems; and the broader regional community. Strategies to mitigate critical risks are being developed and prioritized for near-, mid- and long-term actions.
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Thames Tideway Tunnel
The Thames Tideway Tunnel will clean up one of London’s greatest natural assets, the iconic River Thames, protect it for generations to come and improve the quality of life for all Londoners.
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Sustainable Water Initiative for Tomorrow (SWIFT)
Dramatically reducing sea level rise and 90% elimination of wastewater treatment plant discharge are just some of the positive outcomes of this bold, swift response to the water scarcity challenge.
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Singapore's NEWater Model
Water scarcity isn't a new phenomenon; historical records note water shortages dating as far back as the 1800s. And, since there’s no new water on Earth, we’re drinking the same water dinosaurs did. What if we showed you how Jacobs and Singapore’s PUB turned water scarcity into international successes with an innovative water reuse strategy?
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Ocean Outfall Legislation Program
As the largest water and sewer utility in the southeastern United States, The Miami-Dade Water and Sewer Department (WASD) serves nearly 2.3 million residents and thousands of visitors. 海洋排放立法(OOL)计划是根据一项全州范围的指令创建的,该指令旨在减少利用现有的海洋排放口向海洋排放废水的做法,该计划由24个主要建设项目组成,总额超过20亿美元.
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Central Interceptor Wastewater Project
Central Interceptor, the supersized wastewater tunnel, will play a crucial role in ensuring cleaner waterways for central Auckland, New Zealand.
Digital OneWater
Tools that transform big data into actionable information.
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Aqua DNA
Aqua DNA, 这是一种智能数字解决方案,通过使用智能传感器和人工智能预测分析来收集实时数据并改善废水网络性能,以降低风险并产生积极的社会和环境影响.
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Replica
Replica is Jacobs' digital twin solution software platform, delivering intelligent solutions for our customers around the world for more than 20 years.
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Flood Modeller
Flood modeler是业界领先的洪水建模软件,使工程师和科学家能够通过简化河流建模来提供更快,更准确的结果, surface water, and urban drainage systems, and removes the need to use other software.
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Intelligent O&M
Intelligent O&M is a powerful blending of Jacobs’ water subject matter expertise in operations, design and data science, with Palantir’s Foundry platform and user interface, to provide direct and predictive guidance to frontline operation and management (O&M) staff.
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Argon
Argon is an asset management tool for linear sewer and storm water assets that helps utilities manage field data and determine next steps. Argon has been refined with engineering logic and AI to provide accurate condition scores, risk scores, recommended next steps and costs.
Meet our team
Read more about the talent who make it happen every day.
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Susan Moisio
Vice President, Global Water Market Director
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Joseph Danyluk
Global OneWater Director
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Adam Hosking
Global Director, Water Resources Solutions
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Tim Constantine
Global Director, Water Resource Recovery Solutions
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Russell Ford
Global Director, Drinking Water & Reuse Solutions
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Adam Murdock
Global Director, Conveyance and Storage Solutions
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OneWater Reflections thought leadership series
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News
Demystifying Wastewater Decarbonization
Jacobs废水能源优化和脱碳全球负责人Emma Shen讨论了透明的净零目标在水部门的重要性,该目标考虑了废水处理过程排放和长期脱碳机会等挑战.
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Direct Potable Reuse Closes the Loop on the OneWater Cycle
Our water reuse leads Melanie Holmer and Larry Schimmoller explain how recent regulations in the U.S. are accelerating interest in direct potable reuse.
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Innovations in Membrane Treatment
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In the kNOW webinars
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Webinars
Jacobs and Palantir: Digital OneWater Powered by AI
在与Palantir合作举办的“in the kNOW”网络研讨会系列中,加入我们的全球水专家,讨论使人工智能在该领域发挥作用的挑战和实用技巧. Learn how we’ve translated our deep domain expertise of how to plan, design, build, maintain and operate water and wastewater infrastructure into digital solutions. We recognize digital transformation is a journey, so we’ll share our best practices in where to get started through how to leverage AI safely and securely.
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Webinars
Closing the Loop: Biosolids Treatment for Maximum Resource Recovery and Carbon Neutrality
In this “In the kNOW” webinar, we will discuss about market-driven biosolids management, technology trends and the role of biosolids treatment in the net zero water future. In this session, we will also explore the carbon footprint of biosolids management and strategies for reducing emissions, discuss the opportunity for biosolids to be a valuable source of nutrients and energy, and how these resources can be recovered and utilized sustainably.
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Webinars
MABR Technology: The New Triple Threat for Energy, Capacity and N20 Emission Benefits
In this “In the kNOW” webinar, we will discuss the applicability of MABR, benefits and lessons from Ejby Mølle Water Resource Recovery Facility, Denmark, and Elmira Wastewater Treatment Plant in Canada, as well as key considerations when incorporating MABR as part of upgrading and expansion plans.
From our newsroom
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News
Jacobs to Support Design, Construction and Operations for Seawater Desalination Plant
Jacobs (NYSE: J) was selected by Water Corporation, the largest water utility in Western Australia, to design, build, operate and maintain the Alkimos Seawater Desalination Plant in Perth, Australia. The project, part of an alliance with Water Corporation and ACCIONA, is expected to produce 13 billion gallons (50 billion liters) of drinking water per year, scalable up to 26 billion gallons (100 billion liters) under a future project.
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Jacobs Recognized at 2024 Global Water Awards
Jacobs and our clients were recognized for several industry-leading water projects at the 2024 Global Water Awards. Read about the awards here.
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Jacobs to Design Miami-Dade Wastewater Treatment Plant Expansion and Upgrades
雅各布斯(纽约证券交易所代码:J)被迈阿密-戴德县供水和污水处理部门(WASD)选中,为该县的三个污水处理厂进行升级设计,使近2000人受益.4 million residents and hundreds of thousands of visitors each year.
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News
Jacobs’ Partnership with the City of Chattanooga Earns the 2023 Governor’s Environmental Stewardship Award
Jacobs serves as trusted partner for City of Chattanooga’s climate change and energy-saving initiatives, which are part of the Consent Decree with the U.S. EPA. Read more about how we’re enhancing climate response in Tennessee.
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News
Jacobs to Deliver New Water Reclamation Facility in St. Johns County, Florida
Read how we’re providing design-build services for the county’s largest capital improvement project to date – the SR 207 Water Reclamation Facility. The project will expand water reuse capacity and help meet new state environmental regulations.
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News
Jacobs Appointed to UK's United Utilities Strategic Solutions Framework until 2035
Jacobs has been selected by United Utilities, one of the U.K.'s largest listed water companies, to its Strategic Solutions Team (SST) to support program optimization for major capital works through the asset management period (AMP8).