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AWWA ACE59913
- Water Security: Implementing Security Measures in a Cost-Effective Manner
- Conference Proceeding by American Water Works Association, 06/17/2004
- Publisher: AWWA
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Over the last decade, water utility managers have been increasingly challenged by an arrayof competing demands that strain available financial resources. In this context, the mandatefor more effective protection of drinking water infrastructure simultaneously is anopportunity to enhance customer service and another claim on limited resources.Accordingly, utility managers must prioritize potential security investments carefully andensure that selected security improvements are delivered cost-effectively. This paperreviews techniques for prioritizing security investments in recognition of the impossibilityof absolute protection, and in the context of other claims on limited resources. It identifiestypical high-priority security investments and techniques for their cost-effective deliveryand financing. Includes table, figure, appendices.