Supplemental General Security & Resilience Highlights – December 14, 2023

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

• Flooding, severe weather among risks from Florida to Carolinas – Accu Weather 
• Incoming California storms linked to strong El Niño in Pacific – Accu Weather 
• Crews work to contain gas pipeline spill in Washington state – AP
• Millions infected with dengue this year in new record as hotter temperatures cause virus to flare – AP 
• The hidden impacts of climate change on a freshwater ecosystem – Smart Water Magazine
• We built a fake metropolis to show how extreme heat could wreck cities – The Washington Post

Operational Resilience

• In National Climate Assessment, NIST Offers New Insights on Community Resilience and Adaptation – NIST 
• Novel tool informs land use and nutrient control in troubled waters – Smart Water Magazine
• Georgia and Alabama propose a deal to settle their water war over the Chattahoochee River – AP
• Rising sea levels threaten hazardous waste facilities along U.S. coast – Axios
• Security Officers: Occupational Employment and Wages – Homeland Security Newswire

Extremism/Terrorism

• Threat of Violence Likely Heightened Throughout Winter – FBI and DHS
• Seven arrested in Germany, Denmark, the Netherlands over suspected terrorism plots – Reuters
• Netherlands raises terrorism threat level to ‘substantial’ – Reuters
• German prosecutors charge 27 over alleged far-right plot to topple government – The Guardian
• ‘Problematic pockets’: How Discord became a home for extremists – The Washington Post