Webinar
Weather-Proofing Water Networks: Digital Strategies for Extreme Weather Resilience
The frequency and intensity of extreme weather is impacting municipalities, who are facing mounting pressure to ensure the resilience of critical infrastructure—particularly water and wastewater systems.
Learn from Jacobs experts and practitioners with this on-demand webinar on emergency preparedness and response strategies for water utilities. Our panelists share how AI-enabled technologies— including real-time monitoring, predictive analytics, and digital twins—are anticipating threats, reducing disruption, and accelerating recovery.
We discuss proven strategies for operational resilience, including real-world examples from:
- Puerto Rico, which faces increased hurricane activity
- The Australian south and American West, where water scarcity is a growing concern
- Europe and the American Midwest, where intense rain events require water utilities to rethink infrastructure
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“The Digital Resilience and Response System (DRRS) is poised to significantly transform PRASA’s operative capabilities empowering us to operate with resilience and efficiency in mind, improving our responsiveness to our customers even in the most challenging circumstances.”
About Our Speakers
As Water Department Lead and MOP for Florida and Puerto Rico, Godo is a key member of the team implementing the Digital Resiliency and Response System for the Puerto Rico Aqueduct and Sewer Authority (PRASA). DRRS provides PRASA with a state-of-the-art digital platform, leveraging Palantir to support planning, and response to disruptions like hurricanes, earthquakes and cyberattacks.
Emily is Jacobs’ Client Account Manager in Nebraska for Water and Transportation, managing the City of Omaha’s Combined Sewer Overflow Real Time Controls Decision Support System project using Aqua DNA. She has led various utility asset management, modeling, planning, and design projects. Emily serves as a Digital Ambassador at Jacobs, linking internal project teams with our Digital and Data technical staff.
Matt brings together Jacobs’ global subject matter expertise in water and digital, driving the development and delivery of the company’s suite of Water Products including Intelligent O&M, DragonFly, Argon, Hybrid Optimizer, and Replica in the Americas region. He brings more than 18 years of experience, working with water utilities across engineering, operations, and leadership to evaluate and optimize hydraulics, controls, operations, and process through the use of digital solutions.
Elise’s expertise includes hydrologic and hydraulic modeling, flood risk and stormwater management studies, CSO long term control plan implementation, hazard mitigation planning and design, stormwater master planning, green infrastructure solutions, disaster recovery, and regulatory floodplain mapping and permitting related projects. At Jacobs, she has also served as North Region Solutions Leader for Water Resources and as a Global Technology Leader.
Simon Gaskell is a passionate change manager and has spent much of his career enabling operational transformation across multiple industries. He has a passion for implementing new ways of working that are enabled through client adoption of new technologies and digital solutions. Sitting at the crossroads of client requirements for more mature, digital-based management of their water networks; emerging IoT technologies; and Jacobs domain expertise, Simon has been able to build a strong understanding of digitally enabled transformation within water client businesses.