Supplemental General Security & Resilience Highlights – February 27, 2024

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

• Powerhouse storm to unleash severe weather, downpours and gusty winds across more than a dozen states – Accu Weather
• Wild weather hits Northwest with snow even as Midwest gets a taste of summer – AP
• Why so much of the US is unseasonably hot – AP
• Hilary was not a tropical storm when it entered California, yet it had the same impact, study shows – AP
• What’s behind this winter’s U.S. snow drought? – Yale Climate Connections
• Climate change is fanning the flames of NZ’s wildfire future. Port Hills is only the beginning – The Conversation
• These wildfires never went out — they just moved underground – Washington Post
• NEW DETECTION METHOD AIMS TO WARN OF LANDSLIDE TSUNAMIS – University of Alaska Fairbanks
• US-Mexico border: 100 billion gallons of toxic sewage creating a ‘public health crisis’ – ABC News     

Operational Resilience

• The West is losing snowpack. That’s a problem for water management. – Yale Climate Connections
• In water-stressed Singapore, a search for new solutions to keep the taps flowing – AP
• One of the world’s biggest cities may be just months away from running out of water – CNN
• New USGS Colorado River Basin Science Portal – USGS
• In $100 million Colorado River deal, water and power collide – Grist
• Cloud seeding in UAE: a key strategy to tackle water scarcity – Smart Water Magazine
• Victoria’s power outage could have been far worse. Can we harden the grid against extreme weather? – The Conversation
• Protecting Infrastructure – Cyber, Physical, And Emp Attacks – Domestic Preparedness

Extremism/Terrorism

• Explosive detonated outside Alabama attorney general’s office on Saturday – ABC News
• Anticipating the Gaza-Driven Terrorism Surge – Lawfare
• AI Jihad: Deciphering Hamas, Al-Qaeda and Islamic State’s Generative AI Digital Arsenal – Global Network on Extremism and Technology
• Weapons of Mass Hate Dissemination: The Use of Artificial Intelligence by Right-Wing Extremists – Global Network on Extremism and Technology