Current Threats To Water Supply Systems

Water supply systems play an extremely important role in the technical infrastructure of settlement units, ensuring efficient and reliable supply of drinking water to consumers. There are many different threats to uninterrupted water supply, such as equipment failures, natural disasters or catastrop...

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Published in:WIT Transactions on the Built Environment 2016-01, Vol.165, p.3
Main Author: Chudzicki, J
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Contamination
Critical point
Drinking water
Failure
Health risks
Natural disasters
Risk
Technical information
Terrorism
Urban areas
Urban environments
Water conveyance
Water pollution
Water shortages
Water supplies
Water supply
Water supply systems
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Summary:Water supply systems play an extremely important role in the technical infrastructure of settlement units, ensuring efficient and reliable supply of drinking water to consumers. There are many different threats to uninterrupted water supply, such as equipment failures, natural disasters or catastrophes. Provision of water supply is especially important nowadays, given the increasing terrorist attack threat to the modern world. Stoppage of water supply to a large urban area or contamination of drinking water poses a real threat to the health and life of hundreds or even thousands of inhabitants. Paradoxically, in the case of the Polish water supply systems, the aforementioned risks can be realised with relative ease. The paper identifies the critical points of risk to water supply systems, in particular to point structures and linear structures. It discusses the legal aspects of the control over and the public disclosure of sensitive technical information concerning the hydro-engineering structures.
ISSN:1746-4498
1743-3509
DOI:10.2495/UW160011