Handbook of Water and Wastewater Systems Protection
Following the events of 9/11, the Administrator of the US Environmental Protection Agency created the Water Protection Task Force (WPTF), which identified water and wastewater systems as a major area of vulnerability to deliberate attack. The WPTF suggest
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Series Editors Simon Hakim Erwin A. Blackstone
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Robert M. Clark · Simon Hakim · Avi Ostfeld Editors
Handbook of Water and Wastewater Systems Protection
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Editors Robert M. Clark 9627 Lansford Drive Cincinnati, OH 45242, USA [email protected]
Simon Hakim Department of Economics Temple University Philadelphia, PA 19122, USA [email protected]
Avi Ostfeld Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Technion – Israel Institute of Technology 32000 Haifa, Israel [email protected]
ISBN 978-1-4614-0188-9 e-ISBN 978-1-4614-0189-6 DOI 10.1007/978-1-4614-0189-6 Springer New York Dordrecht Heidelberg London Library of Congress Control Number: 2011935004 © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2011 All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, USA), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed is forbidden. The use in this publication of trade names, trademarks, service marks, and similar terms, even if they are not identified as such, is not to be taken as an expression of opinion as to whether or not they are subject to proprietary rights. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
We would like to dedicate this book to our wives Susan Clark, Galia Hakim, and Yael Ostfeld and to our children and grandchildren.
Acknowledgement
We would like to acknowledge, in memoriam, Dr. Paul Seidenstat who was a pioneer in the field of urban economics, an advocate of protecting societies’ critical infrastructure, and who materially contributed to this effort. We would also like to acknowledge the individuals and institutions who contributed to this book and the men and women who are diligently working to protect critical infrastructure throughout the world.
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Contents
1 Securing Water and Wastewater Systems: An Overview . . . . . . Robert M. Clark, Simon Hakim, and Avi Ostfeld 2 Water/Wastewater Infrastructure Security: Threats and Vulnerabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Laurie J. Van Leuven
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3 EPA Drinking Water Security Research Program . . . . . . . . . . Hiba S. Ernst, K. Scott Minamyer, and Kim R. Fox
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4 Drinking Water Critical Infrastructure and Its Protection . . . . . Rakesh Bahadur and William B. Samuels
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5 Wastewater Critical Infrastructure Security and Protection . . . . Rakesh Bahadur and William B. Samuels
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6 Protecting Water and Wastewater Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Randy G. Fischer
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7 Spatial Distributed Risk Assessment for Urban Water Infrastructure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Michael Möderl and W. Rauch
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