Professional paper
Critical infrastructure protection actualities with emphasis to public water supply
Damir Trut
orcid.org/0000-0002-7742-0914
; Ministarstvo unutarnjih poslova, Ravnateljstvo civilne zaštite. Republika Hrvatska.
Abstract
Water is a unique and irreplacable, limited natural resource with an uneven global spatial and temporal distribution. The fact that all life forms and all human activities are more or less related to water clearly shows the importance of relations and the protection of water. Climate change has been recorded, and the hydrological extremes of floods and droughts are becoming more pronounced. Adaptation to climate change is an ongoing task, for which it is necessary to develop and maintain water management and water utility facilities and systems in a sustainable way.
In addition to climate change as a growing security threat to the water infrastructure, there are other asymmetric threats and challenges such as cyberattacks, deliberate pollution, terrorist attacks, sabotage etc. Economic development and urbanization are leading to a large increase in water demand, and in this respect, water is becoming a limiting factor in development. Therefore, it is of utmost importance to initiate the protection of water resources and the protection of distribution water supply infrastructures in the Republic of Croatia.
We will reduce security threats to critical infrastructure by applying approaches primarily related to legislative frameworks and then through plans, programs and other activities that will need to be implemented at all levels of critical infrastructure management.
Keywords
water resources, climate change, asymmetric threats, water infrastructure, critical infrastructure
Hrčak ID:
281021
URI
Publication date:
29.7.2022.
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