Overview
- Investigates the direct threats to drinking water supply systems such as from natural or manmade threats
- Analyses threats from point- and non–point source pollution to water-related ecosystems, as increased water consumption resulting in the increased use of ecosystem services and biodiversity loss
- Investigates the impact of climate change resulting in increased hydrological variability including increased amplitude and frequency of droughts and floods ?
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Protecting Critical Infrastructure (PCIN, volume 2)
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Urban water and wastewater systems have an inherent vulnerability to both manmade and natural threats and disasters including droughts, earthquakes and terrorist attacks. It is well established that natural disasters including major storms, such as hurricanes and flooding, can effect water supply security and integrity. Earthquakes and terrorist attacks have many characteristics in common because they are almost impossible to predict and can cause major devastation and confusion. Terrorism is also a major threat to water security and recent attention has turned to the potential that these attacks have for disrupting urban water supplies. There is a need to introduce the related concept of Integrated Water Resources Management which emphasizes linkages between land-use change and hydrological systems, between ecosystems and human health, and between political and scientific aspects of water management. An expanded water security agenda should include a conceptual focus on vulnerability, risk, and resilience; an emphasis on threats, shocks, and tipping points; and a related emphasis on adaptive management given limited predictability. Internationally, concerns about water have often taken a different focus and there is also a growing awareness, including in the US, that water security should include issues related to quantity, climate change, and biodiversity impacts, in addition to terrorism. This presents contributions from a group of internationally recognized experts that attempt to address the four areas listed above and includes suggestions as to how to deal with related problems. It also addresses the new and potentially growing issue of cyber attacks against water and waste water infrastructure including descriptions of actual attacks, making it of interest to scholars and policy-makers concerned with protecting the water supply.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Securing Water and Wastewater Systems
Book Subtitle: Global Experiences
Editors: Robert M. Clark, Simon Hakim
Series Title: Protecting Critical Infrastructure
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01092-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-01091-5Published: 15 October 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-34446-1Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-01092-2Published: 04 October 2013
Series ISSN: 2512-1790
Series E-ISSN: 2512-1804
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 398
Number of Illustrations: 21 b/w illustrations, 93 illustrations in colour
Topics: Waste Water Technology / Water Pollution Control / Water Management / Aquatic Pollution, Political Science, Public Administration