Water Supply in Emergency Situations [electronic resource] / edited by Yair Sharan, Abraham Tal, Harry Coccossis.

Threats To Water Supply And Risk Management -- Countries' And Major Cities' Case Studies -- Security Of Water Supply -- Detection, Monitoring, And Warning -- Treatment Of Contaminated Water -- Legal Aspects.

This book reflects the outcome of a three day NATO Advanced Workshop entitled 'Supply of Water to Cities in Emergency Situations' organized by ICTAF at Tel-Aviv University and The University of Thessaly, Department of Planning and Regional Development and sponsored by the NATO Security through Science programme. Some 35 experts from 14 countries from Europe, the Middle East and Asia assembled in Tel-Aviv for this event. The 20 papers presented and the discussions which took place throughout the workshop illuminate a broad spectrum of problems and of concerns to the orderly water supply in the different participating countries ranging from floods, through contamination due to deteriorated infrastructure and to a surprisingly low concern related to intentional terror-related threats. We find insufficient preparedness in many countries to cope with severe disruption of water supply.