Supplemental General Security & Resilience Highlights – October 12, 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

• Global study warns water security threatened by droughts and heat waves worldwide – Phys.org
• Why Climate Change Is a National Security Risk – Columbia Climate School
• Hurricanes arriving earlier due to climate change – University of Hawai‘i
• Drought triggers ‘historic’ global hydropower decline in early 2023 – Smart Water Magazine

Operational Resilience

• New flood prediction model has potentially life-saving benefits – Smart Water Magazine
• Codagenix announces promising findings for intranasal COVID vaccine – University of Minnesota

Extremism/Terrorism

• Are terrorists trying to enter the U.S. through the southern border? Here are the facts. – CBS News
• ISIS as a Narrative Phenomenon – Homeland Security Today