Join the Newport News Green Foundation on Wednesday, April 16 at 6:00 p.m. at Coastal Fermentory (206 23rd St.) to hear from Jen Cobb, the Assistant Director at Newport News Waterworks!

Register here: https://bit.ly/GreenDrinksApril16

This Green Drinks event is free and open to the public. Members of the Green Foundation get one free drink ticket! Not a member yet? Sign up when you register!

Event Description:

With the recent Metro Richmond water crisis of January 2025, many people are asking, “What’s to keep that from happening where I live and work?”  The answer is continual efforts in planning, resiliency, innovation, and learning from the past. Newport News Waterworks has been on the journey for over a century to become one of the most resilient water utilities around. Approaches to be shared will include redundancies, preventative maintenance, implementation of Effective Utility Management practices, and most importantly, employees with incredible sense of pride in providing one of the basic necessities of life to over 410,000 people in Virginia’s lower peninsula.

About Jen Cobb:

Jen Cobb is the Assistant Director for Waterworks in the City of Newport News, Virginia. She has 25 years of experience in the stormwater, drinking water, sanitary sewer, and solid waste fields in public and private sectors and is a registered Professional Engineer in Virginia. She holds a B.S. in Biological Systems Engineering and a Graduate Certificate in Local Government Management, both from Virginia Tech. She is a past Chair of VWEA’s Stormwater Committee, the current vice chair of the VWEA and VA AWWA joint Utility Management Committee, and an active member of Water Environment Federation’s Leadership Institute Steering Committee. She has been married to the “best husband in the world” for 23 years with two teenagers, three cats, and a Great Dane. Her passions include water, wolves, and the color purple, while her hobbies include playing volleyball, cruising, and living life on the edge (whether jumping out of an airplane or staying sane while raising ADHD kids).

Green Drinks is a speaker series focused on health, wellness, and the environment.