Water Blogged

For the month of August, SJW is celebrating Watershed Appreciation Month and we hope you’ll join us! A watershed is an area of land that channels rainfall, snowmelt, and runoff into a common body of water. In fact, spanning from the San Francisco Bay to the Pacific Ocean, the entire bay area is one big watershed!

I've been with SJW for 7 years. I work in our Planning department as an Engineering Supervisor. My main role is preparing our capital improvement budgets, monitoring performance against those budgets, and overseeing the administration of our capital work orders.

SJW’s Meter Shop hosted our technology partners Neptune and MARS to help solve a mystery.

As a Fleet & Facilities Worker II, my main responsibilities include supporting workplace services and capital projects.

Did you know that artificial intelligence helps San Jose Water deliver water to our customers? SJW’s approach to pipeline replacement is driven by a commitment to ensuring the highest standards of water service reliability and safety for our community. Led by the Asset Management team, SJW leverages a cutting-edge artificial intelligence (AI) model to enhance our decision-making process—ranking each pipe segment in our system for replacement based on its unique probability of failure (PoF).

Today’s Employee Spotlight is shining on Sara Vos, a Customer Service Representative for San Jose Water. If you ever give our customer service line a call, it might just be Sara’s friendly hello that greets you!

This past month, SJW’s Assistant Engineer, Ethan Smith, had the opportunity to present at the ASCE Inspire 2023 Conference on pump optimization being implemented at SJW with the AVEVA PI System.

Meet Wanda Folk, Senior Water Services Representative in the Water Services Engineering Department. This department is the first point of contact for developers & homeowners who need new water service connections for their projects.