The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has identified water availability as a potential disrupter to functions of critical infrastructure.
The Secure Tomorrow Series Toolkit, meant to facilitate conversations among government stakeholders of critical infrastructure, identifies emerging threats to national critical functions. These functions, if disrupted, could have consequences for national security and public health.
CISA identifies three emerging and evolving risks that could threaten infrastructure on a three to 20 year time horizon.
Water quality and quantity are “truly inseparable” to the nation’s critical infrastructure, said Erin Walsh, associate director of strategic foresight at CISA.