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| DefendYourH2O.com Homeland Security Products and Services' primary purpose is to assist communities in their quest to enhance drinking water security and to market the Davidson ATV – the world’s first internal stealth device solely designed for the prevention of foreign substance injection into the drinking water system via the fire hydrant. Click here to visit the website |
| National Emergency
Management Summit The Leading Forum on Medical Preparation and Response to Disasters, Epidemics and Terrorism New Orleans, Louisiana, March 5, 2007 Glen Cannon Director, U. S. Department of Homeland Security Federal Emergency Management Area *Special Note - One of Mr. Cannon's final statements addresses hydrant security! Click here to visit the website |
| U. S. Environmental
Protection Agency Water and Wastewater Security Product Guide Water distribution systems provide not only potable water for drinking and other uses, but they also supply water for fire-fighting through fire hydrants. Most distribution systems contain numerous hydrants, which are located throughout the community, many in areas that are not easily guarded or protected. In addition, because hydrants are designed to be used in an emergency, they must be accessible and easy to operate, and, thus, they cannot be secured in an enclosure or otherwise protected as can many water system components (e.g., valves, pumps.) The purpose of this document is to provide an overview on how fire hydrants work, and to describe the options available for providing additional security to the hydrants. Click here to visit the website |
| Responder Knowledge
Base "Created to provide Emergency Responders, purchasers, and planners with a trusted, integrated, on-line source of information on products, standards, certifications, grants, and other equipment-related information." Click here to visit the website |
| The Blue Death: Disease,
Disaster, and the Water We Drink by Robert D. Morris PAGES 288-289: Terrorism In the wake of the 9/11 attacks, EPA Administrator Christie Todd Whitman told reporters at a White House briefing, "[W]e are actually feeling very comfortable as far as water supplies are concerned, that it would be very difficult to carry out the kind of attack that could result in true health implications to a general population." The executive director of the American Water Works Association rushed to join her, stating, "Most systems have so much water and such effective treatment mechanisms, that anything less than many tankers full of dangerous agents would be diluted and easily neutralized. It is hard to imagine that anyone would have the ability to deliver such quantities effectively and without detection." One can only hope that this was political posturing intended to divert terrorist aim. As Richard G. Luthy, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Stanford University and chair of the Water Science and Technology Board of the National Research Council warned in a presentation to the House Committee on Science: I caution you to question very carefully comments I hear from officials that refer to "truck load" quantities of chemicals being necessary to cause harm because of dilution from the large volumes of water being handled. Well, this simply isn't true. . . and all the more so if the goal is fear, anxiety, and disruption." PAGE 290: One evening, while I was attending a meeting in Washington, D.C., I shared dinner with a pair of experts from two major water utilities. In the course of the discussion, one of them swore me to secrecy, leaned across the table, and explained how one could contaminate a major portion of an urban water supply with relative ease. On the off chance that diabolical minds have not figured out the details, I will refrain from offering specifics on how a successful attack might be undertaken, but it will not require truckloads of poison. If we are to stop men who take down skyscrapers with box cutters, we must learn to think like them. An attack with the potential to kill hundreds, sicken thousands, and to cause millions if not billions of dollars in economic damage might require nothing more sophisticated than a small group of men with bags of manure. Click here to visit the website and buy the book |
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September 11th:
Five Years Later
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Firefighting Foam Taints Cities' Water
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Homeland Security Plans New Direction
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Water Terrorism: An Overview of
Water & Wastewater Security Problems and Solutions
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Early Warning Systems for Hazardous Biological Agents in Potable Water
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CRS Report for Congress:
Terrorism and Security Issues Facing the
Water Infrastructure Sector
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The Biological and Toxin Weapons Threat to the United States
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