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Cholera: Water canary saving lives?

Last year I posted about the Water Canary and since I have not heard any news about the project. Recently a short interview published with Sonaar Luthra who “explains his role in developing a device to prevent people from using water contaminated

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Posted in Hardware, Water security

EDS Challenge: Overview and Some Preliminary Results

I have been participating in the EPA’s Event Detection System Challenge (see phase II) held last year with a tool I developed named optiEDS. During the Water Security Congress earlier this month in Nashville, Katie Umberg of the EPA presented

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Event detection system – optiEDS

optiEDS – online, real time, event detection system for water networks. Coming soon…

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Water security index

ֲ From maplecroft: A new report evaluating the water security of 165 countries has rated the supply of clean, fresh water to the societies and businesses of 10 nations at “extreme risk.” I don’t have access to the full report so

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Posted in Papers and Research, Water security

Bluebox Event Detection System – under the hood

In the past year I have seen a few press releases by WhiteWater Security (WWS) regarding their WaterWall product: WaterWallג„¢ is a revolutionary end-to-end water security management system, designed to give decision-makers and water security operators an unprecedented level of

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Tap water pollution in north China

More and more reports regarding the tap water pollution in north china are showing up. It is reported that thousands are sicking medical help. Water supply to Chifeng’s new city centre, a 17-square km area with 58,000 people, was contaminated

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BackSense – contamination source detection software

BackSense is new methodology to identify the possible sources location and time frame of a contamination that may cause the trigger of a set of water quality sensors that are part of an Early Contamination Warning System (ECWS). The basic

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Posted in Programming, Water security

Operation Atlas – Poisoning Tel-Aviv Residents

On 1941 the Arab Mufti of Jerusalem Haj Amin al-Husseini met with Adolf Hitler and discussed ways to ‘solve the Jewish problem’. Three years later the Nazis and the Arabs of Palestine planned to poison the drinking water in Tel-Aviv

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NYC water system map on stolen computer

According to the New York Sun “New York City’s water supply could be the target of contamination if a water system map made its way into the wrong hands…” New York City’s water supply could be the target of contamination

Posted in General, Off topic, Water security

Water security at InfraGard 2005

InfraGard 2005 National Conference (hosted by the InfraGard National Members Alliance and the FBI) has a track called “Taking Aim at Our Nationג€™s Drinking Water”: Track Overview As security tightens around airports and other facilities, terrorists are acquiring targets that

Posted in Events & news, Water security