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Water Sector Interdependencie - General Awareness Training

10.0

Drinking Water and Wastewater

Water Environment Federation

Steven Massa

smassa@wef.org

703-684-2400 Ext.

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In the United States, drinking water and wastewater utilities, collectively known as the Water Sector, are charged with implementing programs to provide clean and safe water to their communities every day regardless of external forces that may impede their efforts, including natural disasters or terrorist events. To provide their essential services, water sector utilities do not operate independently. Rather they are dependent upon other national critical infrastructures such as energy, transportation, and information technology. Additionally, many of the nations other critical infrastructures are dependent upon the water sector to provide clean and safe water. In fact, the water sector is interdependent with every critical infrastructure. This workshop will provide an overview of the water sector from the perspective of the National Infrastructure Protection Plan and the Water Sector Specific Plan, as well as an overview of the seventeen additional critical infrastructures.

Basic thru Advanced

Module 1: Workshop Learning Objectives and Interdependency Exercise Module 2: Sustenance and Health Sector Overviews and Group Discussion Module 3: Service Industry Sector Overviews Module 4: Federal and State Sector Overviews and Group Discussion Module 5: Production Industry Sector Overviews and Group Discussion Module 6: Water Sector Interdependency Exercise and Hotwash — Pandemic Flu

The primary target audience for the workshop is executives, managers, and operators of water sector (water and wastewater) utilities. In addition, representatives from the following sectors would benefit from the workshop: Agriculture and Food, Public Health and Health Care, Communications, Information Technology, Transportation, Emergency Services, Energy, Chemical, and Dams.

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