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Securing Water and Wastewater Systems - Global Experiences (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2014)
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Securing Water and Wastewater Systems - Global Experiences (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2014)
Series: Protecting Critical Infrastructure, 2
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Urban water and wastewater systems have an inherent vulnerability
to both manmade and natural threats and disasters including
droughts, earthquakes and terrorist attacks. It is well established
that natural disasters including major storms, such as hurricanes
and flooding, can effect water supply security and integrity.
Earthquakes and terrorist attacks have many characteristics in
common because they are almost impossible to predict and can cause
major devastation and confusion. Terrorism is also a major threat
to water security and recent attention has turned to the potential
that these attacks have for disrupting urban water supplies. There
is a need to introduce the related concept of Integrated Water
Resources Management which emphasizes linkages between land-use
change and hydrological systems, between ecosystems and human
health, and between political and scientific aspects of water
management. An expanded water security agenda should include a
conceptual focus on vulnerability, risk, and resilience; an
emphasis on threats, shocks, and tipping points; and a related
emphasis on adaptive management given limited predictability.
Internationally, concerns about water have often taken a different
focus and there is also a growing awareness, including in the US,
that water security should include issues related to quantity,
climate change, and biodiversity impacts, in addition to terrorism.
This presents contributions from a group of internationally
recognized experts that attempt to address the four areas listed
above and includes suggestions as to how to deal with related
problems. It also addresses the new and potentially growing issue
of cyber attacks against water and waste water infrastructure
including descriptions of actual attacks, making it of interest to
scholars and policy-makers concerned with protecting the water
supply.
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