Supplemental General Security & Resilience Highlights – June 20, 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

• Alberto, season’s first named tropical storm, dumps rain on Texas and Mexico, which reports 3 deaths – AP
• New wildfires grow in Northern California as firefighters gain ground against big blaze in the south – AP
• Firefighters battling N.M. fires face “life-threatening burn scar” flood threat – Axios
• New Mexico wildfire claims second life, while rain offers hope of relief – AP
• Locally heavy downpours, coastal impacts to Southeast from swath of tropical moisture – Accu Weather
• Long-lasting heat wave continues to bake much of eastern U.S. – Washington Post
• How a Heat Dome Creates Dangerous, Record-Breaking Temperatures – Wall Street Journal
• Climate change made killer heat wave in Mexico, Southwest US even warmer – ABC News
• Heatwaves and wildfires strike across US as tropical storm forms in gulf – Guardian
• This part of the US is at highest risk for a devastating tsunami – CNN
• California Wildfires: Over 52,000 People Killed Due to Pollution – Homeland Security Today

Operational Resilience

• Atlanta will use artificial intelligence tools to detect water main breaks – Smart Water Magazine
• NASA Satellites Find Snow Didn’t Offset Southwest US Groundwater Loss – NASA
• Canal pipe breaks, threatening a northern Montana irrigation project and drinking water – AP
• The US is losing wetlands at an accelerating rate − here’s how the private sector can help protect these valuable resources – The Conversation
• This week’s heat already feels like deep summer. Why that can be dangerous. – Washington Post
• ‘We Just Always Expect It to Work’: 911 Outage Shows System’s Perils – New York Times
• Chemicals from East Palestine derailment spread to 16 US states, data shows – Guardian
• EPA to award $9.75M in grants to support water quality monitoring – Smart Water Magazine
• Investors generally underestimated the risk and impact of hurricanes, prior to feeling “Superstorm” Sandy’s fury on Wall Street – Indiana University
• Cla-Val launches Cla-Tools, a free software suite to analyze and plan valve assets in water systems – WaterWorld Magazine
• Take the guesswork out of wildfire risk reduction – Utility Dive
• Coming soon to a lake near you: Floating solar panels – Grist

Extremism/Terrorism

• Arizona man planned a mass shooting targeting African Americans at an Atlanta concert to incite a race war, feds say – NBC News
• Mayorkas Detects Uptick in Foreign Terrorist Threats to US – Bloomberg
• Suspect dead, 9 wounded including children in shooting at Detroit area water park – Reuters
• ‘Lone wolf terrorist’ stopped from detonating bomb outside hospital by patient who talked him down, trial hears – Sky News
• German police shot a man allegedly threatening them with a hammer in Euro 2024 host city Hamburg – AP
• A New Recruiting Ground for ISIS: Why Jihadism Is Thriving in Tajikistan – Foreign Affairs
• U.S. designates Iran-aligned Ansar Allah al-Awfiya as terrorist organization – UPI
• A Third Trial Of Suspects In An Alleged Far-Right Coup Plot Opens In Germany – AP