Critical Infrastructure Resilience and Sustainability Reader

5Water and Water Treatment

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• 5.1 A Vanishing Resource
  • 5.1.1 From Germs to Terrorists
  • 5.1.2 Safe Drinking Water Act
  • 5.1.3 The WaterISAC
• 5.2 Foundations: SDWA of 1974
• 5.3 The Bio‐Terrorism Act of 2002
  • 5.3.1 Is Water for Drinking?
  • 5.3.2 Climate Change and Rot – The New Threats
• 5.4 The Architecture of Water Systems
  • 5.4.1 The Law of the River
  • 5.4.2 Resiliency of Water Pipeline Networks
• 5.5 Hetch Hetchy Water
  • 5.5.1 Risk Analysis
  • 5.5.2 Resilience Analysis
• 5.6 Threat Analysis
  • 5.6.1 The Rational Actor
  • 5.6.2 Hetch Hetchy Threat Analysis
  • 5.6.3 Chem‐Bio
  • 5.6.4 Earthquakes
• 5.7 Water Resilience
  • 5.7.1 Save the Pineapple Express
  • 5.7.2 Gray Water
  • 5.7.3 Desalination
  • 5.7.4 Exemplar Israel
• 5.8 Discussion
• References

5.1 A Vanishing Resource

PPD‐21 defines the security goal of the Water and Wastewater Treatment sector as, “… a secure and resilient drinking water and wastewater infrastructure that provides clean and safe water as an integral part of daily life, ensuring the economic vitality of and public confidence in the Nation's drinking water and wastewater service through a layered defense of effective preparedness and security practices in the sector.” Note that the emphasis is on drinking water, which is approximately 15% of the county's water supply chain. Agricultural and industrial water are excluded from this sector. Also note that water, in the form of hydroelectric power, is also connected to other Critical Infrastructure and Key Resources (CIKR) sectors ...