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
FEMA will host a series of 60-minute webinar sessions this month designed to improve an organization’s approach to learning from exercises and past incidents. As WaterISAC frequently emphasizes, exercises are an important part of a preparedness program, helping organizations build, improve, and validate their incident response and recovery capabilities.
The American Business Water Coalition (ABWC) recently published a report underscoring the threat to water and wastewater utilites from increasingly intense extreme precipitation events and other weather-related hazards. The report also highlights the risk of aging infrastructure and calls for a significant increase in funding by the federal government.
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
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
Today, CISA released a new resource titled, “Violence Prevention through De-escalation Video,” to help critical infrastructure and other community stakeholders identify concerning behaviors and mitigate the risk of targeted violence.
Sustainable water management is a challenge in many areas around the country, especially in the arid western U.S. To help with this issue, researchers from NASA, the Desert Research Institute (DRI), and Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), created a free online tool, OpenET, for mapping evapotranspiration at the scale of individual plots of land, which can improve water management.
Last week, FEMA released new updates for its Mitigation Action Portfolio (MAP). This portfolio offers details on innovative hazard mitigation projects for a variety of natural hazards that stakeholders could potentially get funding for under one of FEMA’s Hazard Mitigation Assistance programs.
We are excited to announce the H2OSecCon Spring 2024 call for presentations!
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
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