Security of Water Supply Systems: from Source to Tap

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XIV

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2. MANAGEMENT OF WATER SUPPLY SYSTEMS IN SLOVENIA AND ITS INTEGRATION ON THE STATE, REGIONAL AND LOCAL LEVEL

   • PRIMOŽ BANOVEC

   Pages 1-7

3. FAILURE MECHANISMS AND MONITORING METHODOLOGIES PERTINENT FOR DETECTION OF EXPOSURE RISKS IN WATER DISTRIBUTION NETWORKS

   • EDWARD A. MCBEAN

   Pages 9-17

4. MONITORING OF ORGANIC MICRO CONTAMINANTS IN DRINKING WATER USING A SUBMERSIBLE UV/VIS SPECTROPHOTOMETER

   • JOEP VAN DEN BROEKE, ALBERT BRANDT, ANDREAS WEINGARTNER, FRANZ HOFSTÄDTER

   Pages 19-29

5. EXPECTED DEVELOPMENT IN THE SUPPLY AND DISTRIBUTION OF DRINKING WATER IN CZECH REPUBLIC

   • IVA CIHAKOVA

   Pages 31-38

6. USE OF DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM WATER QUALITY MODELS IN SUPPORT OF WATER SECURITY

   • WALTER M. GRAYMAN

   Pages 39-50

7. VULNERABILITY OF WATER TO LEAKAGE

   • VLADIMIR HAVLIK

   Pages 51-63

8. REAL TIME ANALYSIS FOR EARLY WARNING SYSTEMS

   • PETR INGEDULD

   Pages 65-84

9. USE OF UV-VIS SPECTROMETRY FOR DRINKING WATER SUPPLY

   • R. PERFLER, G. LANGERGRABER, W. LETTL, N. FLEISCHMANN

   Pages 85-98

10. AN INTEGRATED WATER QUALITY SECURITY SYSTEM FOR EMERGENCY RESPONSE

    • WILLIAM B. SAMUELS, RAKESH BAHADUR

    Pages 99-112

11. MATHEMATICAL MODEL AS A TOOL TO ENSURE HIGH QUALITY OF DRINKING WATER IN A DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM

    • KATEŘINA SlavÍČKOVÁ, ALEXANDER GRÜNWALD, MAREK SLAVÍČEK, BOHUMIL ŠŤASTNÝ, KLÁRA ŠTRAUSOVÁ

    Pages 113-124

12. EVALUATION AND MONITORING OF SNOW COVER WATER RESOURCES IN CARPATHIAN BASINS USING GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION

    • GHEORGHE STANCALIE, SIMONA CATANA, CRISTIAN FLUERARU

    Pages 125-135

13. DEVELOPMENT OF A COMPLEX SYSTEM FOR PIPELINE DESIGN IN SLOVAKIA

    • ŠTEFAN STANKO, IVANA MAHRÍKOVÁ, TOMÁŠ GIBALA

    Pages 137-145

14. WATER RESOURCES OF THE CRISURI RIVER BASIN – QUALITY & SECURITY

    • OCTAVIAN STRENG, CEZAR MORAR

    Pages 147-154

15. SECURITY OF WATER SUPPLY AND SEWERAGE SYSTEMS IN SLOVAKIA - PRESENT STATE F

    • K. TÓTHOVÁ, I. MAHRÍKOVÁ

    Pages 155-167

16. RISK ANALYSIS OF WATER DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS

    • LADISLAV TUHOVCAK, JAN RUCKA, TOMAS JUHANAK

    Pages 169-182

The provision of safe drinking water is one of the primary responsibilities of all governments, which address and share this responsibility through various levels of administration, ranging from the municipal to federal level, and further sharing of such responsibilities with public or private water utility companies. Recent reviews indicate the existence of significant vulnerabilities of all components of the infrastructure in general, among which the water supply systems are considered the most critical because of it’s importance to human life. Indeed, such systems encompas huge number of stuctures, plants and devices that might become a target of sabotage, and they all may be found in major components of each water supply system: the raw water sources (usually a reservoir, a river intake, or groundwater aquifer), water purification plants (encompassing various treatment processes), and water distribution networks bringing potable water to the consumers. Consequently, the reality of the post-September 11 situation forces the operators of water supply systems throught the world to examine the security and safety of their systems, it’s vulnerability to intentional interference and sabotage with respect to quantity and quality of potable water. In assessing the system vulnerability, there is an urgent need to develop emergency response plans providing ways and means for alternative water supply for the moment of system operation disruption, and system remediation and recovery after the attack.

• Environmental
• NATO
• Science
• Security
• Sub-Series C
• Water supply
• contaminants
• safety
• water quality and water pollution
• water industry and water technology
• hydrogeology

• Czech Technical University, Prague, Czech Republic

  Jaroslav Pollert

• PRONING DHI d.o.o., Zagreb

  Bozidar Dedus

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