Handbook of Water and Wastewater Systems Protection

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Clark, Robert M. (Editor), Hakim, Simon (Editor), Ostfeld, Avi (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2011.
• Series: Protecting Critical Infrastructure ; 2
• Subjects: Political science.; Water-supply.; Management.; Hydrogeology.; Political Science and International Relations.; Political Science.; Water Industry/Water Technologies.

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 suggested that there are steps that can be taken to...