Drinking Water: Experts' Views on How Future Federal Funding Can Best Be Spent to Improve Security

Abstract

Drinking water utilities across the country have long been recognized as potentially vulnerable to terrorist attacks of various types, including physical disruption, bioterrorism, chemical contamination, and cyber attack. Damage or destruction by terrorists could disrupt not only the availability of safe drinking water, but also the delivery of vital services that depend on these water supplies, such as fire suppression. Such concerns were greatly amplified by the September 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon and then by the discovery of training manuals in Afghanistan detailing how terrorist trainees could support attacks on drinking water systems.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2003
Accession Number
ADA458635

Entities

Organizations

  • United States Government Accountability Office

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Counter WMD
  • Cyber

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Congress
  • Delphi Method
  • Drinking Water
  • Electronic Mail
  • Emergency Response
  • Environmental Protection
  • Health Services
  • Law
  • Medical Personnel
  • Personnel Management
  • Public Health
  • Public Policy
  • Security
  • Threat Evaluation
  • United States
  • Urban Areas
  • Water Purification

Readers

  • Cybersecurity.
  • Emergency Management and Homeland Security.
  • Environmental Engineering.

Technology Areas

  • Cyber