WATER SECURITY ARTICLES

Alliance to enhance capabilities of water monitoring system

SAN DIEGO, CA, July 28, 2010 -- JMAR has entered into a strategic alliance with ECSI International to expand the capability of the company's WISE sensor, offering greater security to Government fac...

The Role of Rapid Toxicity Testing in Security Breach Evaluations

(WaterWorld Online, July 2010) There is little doubt that our water supplies are vulnerable to intentional contamination. The heightened sense of the need for security in the water industry since 9...

Water utilities manage risk, resilience better with new standard

WASHINGTON, DC, June 15, 2010 -- AWWA and ASME-ITI have announced the development of the first risk and resilience management standard designed specifically for water utilities...

Utility security summit explores SCADA, cyber security issues

ARLINGTON, VA, June 3, 2010 -- The Critical Infrastructure Security Summit will convene on June 21-23 at the Hilton Alexandria Old Town in Alexandria, VA...

Security -- The Missing Link to a Resilient Water Supply

(WaterWorld Online, May 2010) Due to the catastrophe that would ensue if our nation's water supply were compromised, security for water distribution networks should be a top priority for all suppli...

Israel's Holistic Approach to Water Security: Protection and Detection

(WaterWorld Online, May 2010) In response to both terrorist acts and increasing natural disasters & contaminations in the nation's water supply, the issue of Water Security has come to the fore...

Getting dual use value from water security monitoring systems

(WaterWorld Online, May 2010) In the past, monitoring of operational parameters in the distribution system has been done in a piecemeal and haphazard manner...

Wastewater facility in NY to get alternate backup power system from GE

ERIE, PA, April 30, 2010 -- The New York City Department of Environmental Protection has reached an agreement with Skanska USA to purchase three GE 12 cylinder V250 enclosed stationary generator se...

Water district deploys wireless mesh network to connect, secure remote utility sites

LOS GATOS, CA, April 28, 2010 -- After exploring and trying alternative solutions for two years, the Otay Water District of Spring Valley in Southern California has selected and deployed a wireless...

Drinking water contamination sensor performs well in recent EPA report

SAN DIEGO, CA, April 14, 2010 -- JMAR's BioSentry® outperformed competing online sensors and instruments in a recent EPA review of available detection technologies for low density microbial sus...