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Interview: Jan Dell, VP at CH2MHill on Water Match

Nick Aster
October 30, 2012

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CH2MHill is an employee-owned engineering firm with extensive operations around the globe. Infrastructure related to water is a big piece of the company’s business and therefore concern over the future of global water supplies and stability is a big piece of the company’s sustainability strategy.

I had a chance to sit down with Jan Hill, a vice president at CH2MHill to talk about the importance of water to the company as well as an interesting initiative the company launched last year called water match.

In a nutshell, water match is like an online dating service whose goal is to identify sources of municipal wastewater that have the potential to be reused by industry and other business. A successful match means less water wasted and new business relationships developed.

Video after the jump:


http://youtu.be/BOj6AVOpdDE

To learn more about water match, visit the following URL:
http://www.ch2m.com/watermatch/home/

Nick Aster

Nick Aster

Nick Aster is the founder of TriplePundit. Prior to launching 3p, Nick worked for Mother Jones magazine, successfully re-launching the magazine’s online presence. He worked for TreeHugger.com, managing the technical side of the publication for 3 years, and has also been an active consultant for individuals and companies entering the world of micro-publishing. He also worked for Gawker Media and Moreover Technologies in the early days of blogging. Nick holds an MBA in sustainable management from the Presidio School of Management and graduated with a BA in History from Washington University in St. Louis.

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