Overview
- Provides implementation guidelines for protecting the water and wastewater supply.
- Presents strategies to deal with and minimize the effect of possible attacks.
- Offers the latest thinking and information by a variety of experts from academia, consulting firms, and government
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Protecting Critical Infrastructure (PCIN)
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About this book
Following the events of 9/11, the Administrator of the US Environmental Protection Agency created the Water Protection Task Force (WPTF), which identified water and wastewater systems as a major area of vulnerability to deliberate attack. The WPTF suggested that there are steps that can be taken to reduce these vulnerabilities and to make it as difficult as possible for potential saboteurs to succeed. The WPTF recommended that be scrutinized with renewed vigor to secure water and wastewater systems against these possible threats. It also recommended that water and wastewater systems have a response plan in place in the event an act of terrorism occurs. The WPTF identified water distribution networks as an area of special vulnerability and highlighted the need for rapid on-line detection methods that are accurate and have a wide detection range. As a result of these recommendations novel technologies from various fields of science and engineering are now addressing water security issues and water and wastewater utilities are looking for innovative solutions. Once such technologies are available, there will be a rapid implementation process that will present many business opportunities for the private sector. However, in addition to terrorist threats water and wastewater systems are inherently vulnerable to natural disasters such as earthquakes and floods. This volume will address the problems associated with both intended terrorist attacks and natural disasters affecting water or wastewater systems. The book is divided into parts based on the kinds of threats facing water and wastewater systems: (1) a direct attack on water and wastewater infrastructure storage reservoirs, and distribution and collection networks; (2) a cyber attack disabling the functionality of the water and wastewater systems or taking over control of key components which might result in system failures; and (3) a deliberate chemical or biological contaminant injection at one of the waterdistribution system’s nodes. It will examine unique plans, technological and managerial innovations for protecting such systems, and includes descriptions of projects that were implemented to respond to natural disasters. Case studies are presented that discuss existing projects and evaluate their performance, with an emphasis on providing guidelines and techniques that can be implemented by water and wastewater planners and managers to deal with natural and manmade disasters should they occur.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Handbook of Water and Wastewater Systems Protection
Editors: Robert M. Clark, Simon Hakim, Avi Ostfeld
Series Title: Protecting Critical Infrastructure
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-0189-6
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2011
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4614-0188-9Published: 31 August 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4614-2984-5Published: 27 October 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4614-0189-6Published: 01 September 2011
Series ISSN: 2512-1790
Series E-ISSN: 2512-1804
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 528
Topics: Political Science, Water Industry/Water Technologies, Hydrogeology, Management