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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