The following posts are useful for general awareness of current physical security threats, natural disaster resilience, preparedness resources, mitigation guidance, and other security-related news or updates. These resources have been curated by the WaterISAC analyst team as items of broad relevance and benefit that do not need supplemental analysis at this time.
Natural Hazards/Climate Change
- Severe storms kick into high gear Thursday with tornadoes, damaging winds and hail through Sunday - Fox Weather
- This map may save lives when there's a tornado threat - Accu Weather
- Canada Had Designs on Being a Hydro Superpower. Now Its Rivers and Lakes Are Drying Up - Wall Street Journal
- Vastly bigger than the Black Summer: 84 million hectares of northern Australia burned in 2023 - The Conversation
- Europe is the fastest-warming continent, at nearly twice the average global rate, report says - AP
- ER visits for heat illness rose in 2023 amid record-breaking temperatures: CDC - ABC News
- Beyond Higher Temperatures: Preparing for National Security Risks Posed by Climate Change - Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Operational Resilience
- Partnerships: A Tactic for Resilience - FEMA
- Turning to nature to improve vital water treatment - Smart Water Magazine
- For the Colorado River and beyond, a new market could save the day - Stanford University
- Why You Need More Than Meters In Your Advanced Metering Infrastructure - Water Online
- Sustaining Those Working in Disasters - Domestic Preparedness
- Maui officials push back on some details in Hawaii attorney general report on deadly wildfire - AP
- Colombia rolls out new incentives to cut electricity consumption as dry weather persists - AP
- The U.S. Urgently Needs a Bigger Grid. Here’s a Fast Solution - New York Times
- APS, others plan 1-year delay in fines for Western Resource Adequacy Program capacity shortfalls - Utility Dive
Extremism/Terrorism
- Terrorgram added to list of proscribed terrorist organisations - UK Home Office
- Inside ‘Terrorgram’, the secretive hate group where deadly attacks are planned - Metro.co.uk
- Germany charges seven suspected ISIS-K members over attack plots - Reuters
- An ISIS Terror Group Draws Half Its Recruits From Tiny Tajikistan - New York Times
- Extremist Content Online: Instagram Accounts Use Pro-ISIS Content To Encourage Acts Of Terrorism - Counter Extremism Project
- Moscow Attack: The Popularisation of Far-Right Conspiracy Theories in Mainstream Media - Global Network on Extremism and Technology
