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THE SECURITY OF PUBLIC DRINKING WATER IN THE NEW PARADIGM OF GLOBAL CONFLICT and

RISKBY

HENRY R. HIDELL,III

prepared for

Drinking Water Challenges of the 21st Century

Yale University

April 20 - 21, 2009

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HINGHAM, MASSACHUSETTS, LONG ISLAND N.Y. USA and TELVIV, ISRAEL



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Credits in Preparation of this Presentation:

Peter Hayden: Special Advisor to PureSafe Water Systems and former Chief New York City Fire Department in charge of 9/11 response and 750 First Responders sent to New Orleans after Katrina from NYC Fire Department

Leslie Kessler: CEO PureSafe Water Systems, specialists in First Responder Drinking Water Systems and Technologies

Eyal Sarid: Senior Security Engineer, Mekorot Development and Enterprise, Ltd., Tel Aviv, Israel

Dr. Udi Zukerman: Public Drinking Water Supply Expert,

Mekorot Development and Enterprise, Ltd.



• Drinking Water Security is emerging as one of the great challenges of the 21st Century

• Access to and the security of drinking water supplies is urgently needed as the migratory urbanization of the world’s population continues to encourage population densities beyond local sustainability.

•The concept of secure water is a tool for the preservation of civil order.



•Drinking water security involves the evaluation of complex socioeconomic relationships and the physical resource environment.

•The notion of RISK and PROBABILITY must clearly be defined by those charged with securing drinking water supplies.

•In general the public has little understanding of the of actual risk compared to real probability of a risk event. All risk is viewed as equal by the general public.

•How the drinking water industry presents the concept of risk to the consuming public and the political arena will determine the public’s psyche as to risk response.

•Civil order is maintained when a population has a sense of security and a view of the future. Failure to address these two matters will result in the loss of public confidence.



•“The revolutionary idea that defines the boundary between modern times and the past is the mastery of risk: the notion that the future is more than a whim of the gods and that men and women are not passive before nature. Until human beings discovered a way across that boundary, the future was a mirror of the past or the murky domain of oracles and soothsayers who held a monopoly over knowledge of anticipated events.”

•Peter Bernstein, Against the Gods, The History of Risk



• The battle field of risk is the destabilization of modern society through a systematic attack on long held beliefs that lead to the loss of a sense of predictability and security.

• The infrastructure of densely populated, highly developed economic regions is a prime target for social destabilization.

• Modern communication systems permit the rapid dissemination of information on a global scale. An event in one part of the world has an immediate and serious impact on the psyche of the balance of the world.

• Much of the balance of this presentation is about the ability to respond to events through secure systems technology and preparedness.



The Scenario:

A systematic terrorist attack on the City of New York’s public water supply which physically disrupts 30% of the city’s water distribution system shutting down hospitals, other healthcare facilities, schools and universities and commercial establishments. Coupled with this is a systematic starting of fires in those areas effected by the lack of water.

In addition there is a rumour that a biological agent has been introduced to the balance of the water distribution system.

We are in a critical civil management crisis! Are we prepared?



Prevention: Reduce probability of disruption through planning and deterrent technology

Detection: Comprehensive information management and remote sensing technology

Response: Impact reduction through highly trained security and technical personnel with extensive response planning.

Recovery: Inventory of equipment, trained mechanics and system access ease - national coordination of partner businesses and utilities


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• Prioritization of physical defenses based on:

• 1) possible physical damage to an installation

• 2) motivation to attack the installation

• 3) the vulnerability to damage the target installation

FacilityFacility High High levellevel

Medium Medium levellevel

low low levellevel

Medium Medium tanks and tanks and small small reservoirreservoir

Top priority High priority

Medium priority

Medium Medium reservoirreservoir

High priority Medium priority Low priority

Large Large reservoirreservoir

Medium priority Low priority Very low priority


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SensorsSensors

Verification trapsVerification traps

Inner circleInner circleSensorsSensors Visual verificationVisual verification

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Prevention: Intelligence

1. Credible threat

2. Evaluation of potential targets

3. Organizational preparedness

4. Systems monitoring in high alert

Prevention: Resource monitoring

1. Communications

2. Priority security stages

3. Watershed, Treatment Process, Distribution



Prevention: Physical Plant

1. Reservoirs

2. Hydraulic Systems

3. Strategic Consumers - Industrial/large volume

4. Vulnerability Assessment Every Component

Detection: Water Resource

1. Remote Imaging - Satellite Surveillance

2. Hardened barriers - deterrent

3. Detection Systems - Electronic/Motion/Cameras

4. Verification - Visual/Imaging/Signals



• An innovative low cost system for rapid continuous detection of water borne biological hazards.

• Programmed to detect a wide range of bacteria strains.

• The system combines bio-trap (composed of specific antibody) and innovative and sensitive laser sensors.

• BAS Biological Alarm Systems Ltd.

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Response: Technical

1. Emergency Response Team to Operations

2. Shutdown of valves, pumps, isolation of storage

3. All monitoring systems activated

4. All systems are redundant

Response: Physical

1. Engagement with professional forces

2. Field confirmation of event and nature of event

3. Public notice if required

4. Deployment of emergency water supplies if required.




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Recovery: Social and Civil

1. Immediate Military Intervention at Local Level

2. Social Sciences Intervention as Required including at Medical and Educational Facilities where people can gather and be updated as to situation and Receive Care

3. Local Law Enforcement and Protection - Visible

4. Financial Aid to Impacted Population as Required



Recovery: Physical Facilities

1. Public Service Infrastructure, Medical and Housing

2. Water Treatment and Distribution System

3. Local Schools and Places of Assembly



SUMMARY:

1. Preparedness is the foundation of prevention and resolution

2. Planning must be completed on a comprehensive basis

a. facilities evaluation

b. resource evaluation - Water

c. resource evaluation - human resources

d. create a new division of emergency response

e. Social service providers plan

3. Communication system and notification priority - civil order

4. Full activation of all emergency response units - civil order

5. Recovery Plan and Implementation - multiple agency intervention and private sector deployment

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