DM0450 : Water Supply System Security, Vulnerability & Terrorism

Course Description

This practical and highly-interactive course includes real-life case studies and exercises where participants will be engaged in a series of interactive small groups and class workshops. This course is designed as a response to the critical needs of engineers, security officers and utility managers to have a training on the security of water supply systems. The course presents state-of-the-art methodologies for the various aspects of water supply infrastructure. The topics have been chosen to represent what we feel are the most important for engineers, utility managers, and those working on the security of water supply infrastructure. The wide set of topics in this course range from the various types of threats to various levels of vulnerability assessments, risk assessments, reliability assessments, to surveillance hardware, the next generation of contaminant detection devices, to many other topics. The course covers the microbiological contaminants and threats of concern with the water supply system; the vulnerability assessment and emergency response planning; the drinking water distribution systems; the various cyber threats and IT/SCADA system vulnerability; the method of assessing the risks to drinking-water supplies from terrorists attacks; the methodologies for reliability analysis; the process of developing an early warning system for drinking water security and safety; the process of responding to a contamination threat in a drinking water network and the potential for modeling and monitoring; and the reconstruction historical contamination events.At the completion of the course, participants will be able to employ security hardware and surveillance systems for water supply systems; review the design and implementation considerations; recognize the optimal location of isolation valves; carryout remote monitoring and network models; identify the role of hydraulic and water quality modeling for contamination response; recognize the importance of optimal monitoring stations allocations for water distribution systems security; apply contingency planning for emergency water supply in non-conventional times; and review the development of the next generation microbiological and chemical detection capabilities for water supplies.

TRAINING METHODOLOGY

This interactive training course includes the following training methodologies:

30 % Lectures
20 % Practical Workshops & Work Presentations
30 % Hands-on Practical Exercises & Case Studies
20 % Simulators (Hardware & Software) & Videos

In an unlikely event, the course instructor may modify the above training methodology for technical reasons.

VIRTUAL TRAINING (IF APPLICABLE)

If this course is delivered online as a Virtual Training, the following limitations will be applicable:

Certificates	:	Only soft copy certificates will be issued
Training Materials	:	Only soft copy materials will be issued
Training Methodology	:	80% theory, 20% practical
Training Program	:	4 hours per day, from 09:30 to 13:30