IWA water security - Resilience 2012
The Aim of the Conference
The International Water Association's Water Security and Safety Management SG seeks to establish a platform for dialogue and promote an integrated view on disaster response and resilience. This relates to policy making, financing, urban planning and management, emergency water and wastewater treatment, infrastructure design and rehabilitation as well as upstream linkages of with wider land use planning issues.
Topics Covered
- Natural Disaster Preparedness and Response
• Floods: estimation, planning and response
• Droughts: planning and response
• Earthquakes and Tsunamis: estimation, planning and response
- Man-made Disaster Preparedness and Response
• Terrorism and other Malevolent Acts
• Accidents, Pollutions, Industrial Hazards and other disasters
- Vulnerability & Risk Management Best Practice in Water
• Risk Based Asset Management
• Best Practice in crisis management for Water Utilities (TC224 WG7)
- Research, Development and Emerging Technology Solutions
• Interdependencies
• Mutual aid agreements
• Alternate water supply
• Business Continuity Planning for Water Utilities