The following posts are useful for general awareness of current physical security threats, natural disaster resilience, preparedness resources, mitigation guidance, and other security-related news or updates. These resources have been curated by the WaterISAC analyst team as items of broad relevance and benefit that do not need supplemental analysis at this time.

Natural Hazards/Climate Change

• Drought to downpours: Rain could trigger flooding in Central US - AccuWeather
• Where has all the rain gone? Bone-dry October strikes much of US - AP
• What November, The Last Month Of Hurricane Season, Usually Produces - Weather Channel
• Fire destroys 1 home and forces the evacuation of 700 others in a Colorado subdivision - AP
• Warmer Fall, Later Freeze - Climate Central
• Assessing the U.S. and Global Climate in September 2024 - NOAA
• Where there’s smoke: the rising death toll from climate-charged fire in the landscape - Conversation

Operational Resilience

• USGS Releases New Products that Map Four Decades of Land Cover Change - USGS
• The fate of thousands of US dams hangs in the balance, leaving rural communities with hard choices - Grist
• Building Trust Between Communities and Utilities - Water Online
• New technologies are emerging that can convert CO2 into fuel, but what impact will they have on water resources - Argonne National Laboratory
• Vandals target railway line flood pump - BBC News
• Florida man arrested for threatening utility workers restoring power after Hurricane Milton - ABC News
• Amid hurricanes and wildfires, the legacy grid, not clean power, is failing local communities - Utility Dive
• More Electricity Transmission Lines Would Lower Costs, Increase Reliability - Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
• One of the largest solar projects in the US opens in Texas, backed by Google - AP

Extremism/Terrorism

• Terrorism charges filed against Phoenix man held in Dem shooting case - AZ Central
• Neo-Nazi group the Base found a safe space to recruit Americans: the Russian internet - Guardian
• Judges and Border Police Targeted by Anti-Government Extremists, Doxed as ‘Traitors’ - Wired Magazine
• California Man Charged with Weapon of Mass Destruction Offense in Connection with Bomb Attack in Lobby of County Courthouse - DOJ
• Five killed, 22 injured in terror attack on Turkish aerospace company - CNN