Terrorism “Assessing the Threat for Critical Infrastructure” Methodologies for Water Supplier

Abstract

Operators of water supply infrastructures will find tons of information on terrorism against critical infrastructures. In the close history of middle Europe, we can come up with many criminal attacks against water suppliers. The attack against the “Bodenseewasserversorgung” in fall 2005 demonstrated again, that water supply is clearly a target for criminals and/or terrorist. Before this event, specially after this repeated event then, many efforts where made to secure the supply chain for providing pure drinking water to our citizens. Infraprotect itself was and still is involved in many research programs to secure drinking water against terrorism. The aim of all these programs beginning by the EPCIP program down to national programs in various countries is to identify and quantify the threat to water supply. In fact there are two common approaches to identify threats; the most common used approach is risk based followed by an effect based approach only.

This work describes and compares the methodologies of water supply operators and the concerns of military leaders, securing water supply for citizens during peace keeping operations.

EPCIP, European program critical infrastructure protection