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
- Severe Weather, Including Large Hail and Tornadoes, Expected In Midwest, South - The Weather Channel
- Howling winds to raise risk of wildfires, property damage and power outages over Great Plains - Accu Weather
- Here’s why California is drought-free for a second straight year - Washington Post
- Predicting the Intensity of Hurricanes - Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
- Wildfires on the West Coast May Trigger Hailstorms in the Central US - Newsweek
- Last month was Earth's warmest March on record - NOAA
- Kansas City's downtown infrastructure can impact storm movement, strength - KSHB 41
Operational Resilience
- The South’s aging water infrastructure is getting pounded by climate change – fixing it is also a struggle - The Conversation
- Pro-Palestinian demonstrators shut down airport highways and key bridges in major US cities - AP
- Interoperability is Key to Effective Emergency Communications - DHS
- Challenges and solutions for integrated water resource management in 2024 - Smart Water Magazine
- Rare 4.8 earthquake offers ‘teachable moments’ for preparing for worse disasters - NBC News
- NASA’s PACE Data on Ocean, Atmosphere, Climate Now Available - NASA
- A smarter city skyline for flood safety - Smart Water Magazine
- Ten facts about water desalination - Smart Water Magazine
- In the central US, an electric grid bottleneck persists - Stateline
- China, Russia ramping up cyber activities against energy, water and other critical sectors: FBI director - Utility Dive
- Number of homicides plummets in major U.S. cities - Axios
Extremism/Terrorism
- Australia says Assyrian church stabbing was terrorist act - Reuters
- Number of fatal terrorist attacks in western Europe increasing, data show - Reuters
- The Islamic State Never Went Away - Foreign Policy
- Virginia militia member raised suspicion, then alarm with talk of bombs - Washington Post
- 4 teenagers suspected of planning an Islamic extremist attack arrested in Germany - AP
- Ways to counter Australia’s growing neo-Nazi threat - New Daily
- Extremist Content Online: Alleged ‘New Criteria’ Prompts Twitter/X To Reinstate Account Belonging To Australian Neo-Nazi - Counter Extremism Project
