Drinking water security is a life safety issue as an adequate supply of safe water is essential
for economic, social and sanitary reasons. Damage to any element of a water system, as …

The availability and the quality of drinking water are key requirements for the well-being and
the safety of a community, both in ordinary conditions and in case of disasters. Providing …

Drinking water supply systems are vulnerable targets for which counter-terrorism measures
have been raised worldwide. The threat of terrorist attacks to these systems has led to the …

Abstract Around 30–40 years ago, principles and methods were developed to
conceptualise, assess and manage risk. These principles and methods are still, to a large …

Each year more than 200 million people are affected by floods, tropical storms, droughts,
earthquakes, and also operational failures, wars, terrorism, vandalism, and accidents …

The primary objective of this work is to introduce a novel approach that modifies the method
for analyzing and assessing the risk of water supply network failure. The approach aligns …

The paper proposes an alternative approach to the failure risk analysis of water supply
network which includes random emergency events inaccuracy, diversity and a small amount …

Piped drinking water supplies are exposed to a range of threats. Changing hazard situations
arise from climate change, digitisation, and changing conditions in the power supply, among …

Due to the fact that water systems belong to critical infrastructure, diverse methods of its
management assessment during crisis situations are applied. In these methods both …

One of the concerns about future and existing dams is its safety and the possibility of serious
accidents including the dam failure, chemical and biological terrorism and natural hazards …