(TLP:CLEAR) Supplemental General Security & Resilience Highlights – May 8, 2025
Created: Thursday, May 8, 2025 - 12:00
Categories: General Security and Resilience
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
- Heavy rain to crawl eastward over southern US – AccuWeather
- Heavy rainfall sets records and washes out roadway in rural Oklahoma – AP
- Deadly April rainfall in US South and Midwest was intensified by climate change, scientists say – AP
- Relentless severe weather could pause for a week. Here’s when it returns – Washington Post
- Officials in Puerto Rico expand state of emergency after weeks of heavy rain – AP
- Australia and North America have long fought fires together – but new research reveals that has to change – Conversation
- Hurricane forecasts are more accurate than ever – NOAA funding cuts could change that, with a busy storm season coming – Conversation
- U.S. climate outlook for May 2025 – NOAA
- New hazardous weather warning system proves its mettle during March 2025 tornado outbreaks – NOAA
- US surpasses 1,000 measles cases in 2025, second worst year since disease was declared eliminated – CNN
Operational Resilience
- Hurricane Preparedness Week – FEMA
- What Caused the European Power Outage? – WIRED
- How Water Utilities Can Support The Electric Grid While Reducing Costs – Water Online
- Spain: cable theft that caused rail chaos was ‘act of sabotage’, says minister – Guardian
- Study reveals groundwater dominates snowmelt runoff, controls streamflow efficiency in western US – Smart Water Magazine
- New study finds smarter, cheaper way to get people to save water – Smart Water Magazine
- From sewer to solution: Stanford engineers reinvent wastewater purification to unlock valuable resources – Stanford University
- Bridging Communication Gaps: Lessons from Hurricane Helene – Domestic Preparedness
- National Grid, Con Edison, other utilities urge FERC to consider gas pipeline reliability measures – Utility Dive
- Scientists discover millions of acres of the Central Valley may be suitable for recharging groundwater – Stanford University
Extremism/Terrorism
- Jordanian National Sentenced to Six Years for Threatening to Use Explosives and Attacking an Energy Facility – DOJ
- U.K. police arrest 7 Iranians in what government calls biggest counterterrorism operations in years – CBS News
- Brazilian police arrest 2 suspects over alleged plot targeting Lady Gaga’s concert in Rio – ABC News
- Man charged with tossing explosive device from vehicle near railroad tracks – NJ.com
- Arson suspect arrested after fire at Mesa Tesla dealership, police say – NBC 12
- EcoFascism and Green Accelerationism: Ghosts of the Past or a Present Danger? – Global Network on Extremism and Technology