Water Security Scenarios: Planning for Installation Water Disruptions
Abstract
The Army's critical missions are at risk from interruption of water supplies. Sufficient amounts of high-quality potable water are a resource with-out substitute. The Army's Installation Energy and Water Security Policy establishes requirements for installations to sustain critical mission capabilities and to mitigate risks posed by energy and water disruptions that affect installations; this includes coordinating vulnerability and risk assessments of potential disruptions and implementing adequate responses to mitigate identified risks. Resilient installations will develop storage capacity to forestall water shortages and will also have short- and long-term plans to help the installation recover from events and forestall progressing to more severe deficits. This project supports compliance with the water security policy by exploring the range of conditions and responses possible across installations. Multiple scenarios were developed to explore how a 14-day interruption in water supply might affect an installation and to provide preliminary guidance to help installations develop strategies to address water disruptions to critical missions drawing from existing processes used in mission assurance. Researchers investigated types of installations and classes of scenarios most relevant to installation water security planning and explored several scenarios to provide a framework to helps installations advance their water resilience and security planning.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Aug 21, 2020
- Accession Number
- AD1106944
Entities
People
- Amanda T. Rodriguez
- Djordje Takov
- Elisabeth M. Jenicek
- Lindsey Miller
- Munira Mithaiwala
- Noah W. Garfinkle
- Victoria E. Heath
Organizations
- Construction Engineering Research Laboratory