Last Friday morning, the international Surface Water and Ocean Topography satellite, known as SWOT, lifted off aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. The mission will provide crucial data on Earth’s water supplies, assist with local water management, and help improve flood forecasting, among other benefits.
The increasing effects of climate change is creating greater atmospheric demand for water, which in turn is leading to a heightened risk of major wildfires sparking in forests around the world, according to a recent study from scientists at the University of Melbourne.
Last week, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released the Resilient Power Best Practices for Critical Facilities and Sites. This guidebook supports emergency and continuity managers with guidelines, analysis, background material, and recommendations to increase the resilience of backup and emergency power systems during all durations of power outages. Enhancing power resilience can help the U.S.
FEMA has released a series of new guidance documents to assist partners with their disaster preparedness and risk reduction efforts. They include the Restoration and Recovery Guide for Private-Public Partnerships.
While both the award itself and this note are long overdue, WaterISAC wishes to recognize Eric Hatcher, Senior Emergency Preparedness Specialist at AECOM, the first ever recipient of its Splash Award. This award is given to a person who has demonstrated leadership and dedication to securing the water and wastewater sector.
DHS has published its latest National Threat Evaluation and Reporting (NTER) Office Bulletin, which is designed to keep DHS partners well-informed of research developments, trends, and resources on targeted violence from a threat assessment and management perspective as well as highlight the important work of its partners.
With the recent Thanksgiving holiday having passed, a time when more people come into contact with one another due to travel and gatherings, the CDC and other public health organizations in the U.S. are reporting rising activity in COVID-19 and flu. Given the increases and with other holidays ahead, they have been reminding the public about the importance of vaccinations and other precautions.
Infrastructure Security Month (November) will soon come to a close, but that doesn’t mean efforts to build security and resilience should stop! Quite the contrary – never stop seeking to improve your utility’s security posture, especially given all the resources (oftentimes free) that exist to help in this critical endeavor.
November 29, 2022
Lawmakers Aim to Pass Legislation to Prevent Railroad Strike
With the December 9 deadline for a railroad strike quickly approaching, President Biden yesterday called on Congress to intervene to pass legislation that would implement tentative agreements between labor unions and railroads and avoid disruptions that would likely impact many sectors, including water and wastewater utilities.
FEMA's Hazus team has released a new version of Hazus software with major improvements to inventory data, security vulnerability remediation, software, and methodology. Hazus is a nationally standardized risk modeling methodology. It identifies areas with high risk for natural hazards and estimates physical, economic, and social impacts of earthquakes, hurricanes, floods, and tsunamis.
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