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
- Freeze-ups to cause dangerous conditions to linger in South - AccuWeather
- Evacuations ordered as new fast-moving wildfire threatens mountain homes north of Los Angeles - AP
- How Southern California transformed into a ‘tinderbox’ - Water World
- A new kind of urban firestorm - Washington Post
- Once-in-a-lifetime southern snow eclipses records that stood for decades - AP
- Tropical Cyclone Sean Lashes Western Australia - NASA
- 40-year study suggests extreme droughts will become more frequent and severe - Smart Water Magazine
- Improving prediction of Arctic outbreaks across the Northern Hemisphere - NOAA
Operational Resilience
- NASA Scientists Find New Human-Caused Shifts in Global Water Cycle - NASA
- Canada’s water governance and management systems threaten the country’s water supply - Conversation
- The L.A. Fires Show a Need to Rethink Our Wildland Firefighting Systems - RAND
- Nationwide Projects Planned To Strengthen Water Systems And Combat Cyber Threats - Water Online
- Preparing for the Next Biothreat: Lessons Not to Forget - Domestic Preparedness
- Urbanization drives water quality decline over the last 20 years - Smart Water Magazine
- Winter weather has been more disruptive to transportation than hurricanes - Freight Waves
- Costly wildfires imperil utilities accused of causing the spark - Washington Post
- AI improvements, DERs and new generation needed to meet power demand: USEA panel - Utility Dive
Extremism/Terrorism
- Man accused of starting fire at Wisconsin congressman’s office motivated by TikTok ban, police say - CBS News
- White supremacist jailed for asylum seeker attack - BBC
- “Like Brenton”: Tennessee Man Arrested for Mass Shooting Plot at Mosque - Court Watch
- Veneration of Luigi Mangione shows widespread support for vigilante violence - Institute for Strategic Dialogue
- Extremist Content Online: White Supremacist Telegram Channels Identify Need for Alternative Platform After State Department’s Terrorgram Collective Designation - Counter Extremism Project
