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
- Northwest US to experience surges of intense heat into this weekend - Accu Weather
- Flood emergency hits Arkansas after months of rain falls in a few hours - CNN
- Toronto cleans up after severe storms cause floods - BBC
- Ontario floods: How nature-based solutions can promote effective flood management - The Conversation
- Southern Illinois dam fails after rain, wind, tornadoes pound the Midwest. Hundreds ordered to evacuate. - CBS News
- Could this year's hyperactive tornado season turn out to be the worst on record? - Accu Weather
- Los Alamos AI takes a big step forward in predicting earthquakes - Los Alamos National Laboratory
- Global climate summary for June 2024 - NOAA
- CDC Confirms Human Cases of H5 Bird Flu Among Colorado Poultry Workers - CDC
Operational Resilience
- Water reuse in the U.S.: a comprehensive look at progress, challenges, and future prospects - Smart Water Magazine
- Repair Workers Under Threat Amid Power Outages in Houston - Security Management Magazine
- After heavy June rains, a buildup of manganese is discoloring a Louisiana city’s water supply - AP
- Extreme Heat Is Causing Billions in Damages That Insurers Won’t Cover - Wall Street Journal
- Why saline lakes are the canary in the coalmine for the world’s water resources - The Conversation
- Rebuilding coastal communities after hurricanes is complex, and can change the character of a place - AP
- Transformers: Cooler side of the grid - U.S. National Science Foundation
- Projecting the effect of climate change on the future risk of hurricane-induced power outages - Utility Dive
- From Battlefield to Homefront: Leveraging Military Innovation for Civilian Emergency Response - Homeland Security Today
Extremism/Terrorism
- Georgian National Charged with Soliciting Hate Crimes and a Mass Casualty Attack in New York City - DOJ
- Defendant Sentenced to 16 Months in Prison for Mass Shooting Threat at University of Arizona - DOJ
- FBI says two former WKU students were terrorists - Louisville Courier Journal
- Militias Are Recruiting Off of the Trump Shooting - Wired
- Tenuous Taliban control gives life to al-Qaida, Islamic State - VOA News
- Sovereign Citizen Groups in the Netherlands are Arming Themselves: Cause for Concern? - International Centre for Counter-Terrorism
- How extremist groups like 'Islamic State' are using AI - DW
