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The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is the lead US Sector Specific Agency responsible for water security. Research conducted by EPA’s National Homeland Security Research Center (NHSRC) supports the Agency’s Goal 2 “Clean and Safe Water – Ensuring drinking water is safe” and its mission of providing drinking water treatment plants with tools and methodologies to improve water security and recover as quickly as possible should a chemical, biological, or radiological event occur. The research also has multiple benefits in optimizing treatment operations and improving water quality. This chapter is an overview of the NHSRC water security research program and describes research conducted in the areas of prevention, detection/identification, containment, treatment, and decontamination.
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Ernst, H.S., Minamyer, K.S., Fox, K.R. (2011). EPA Drinking Water Security Research Program. In: Clark, R., Hakim, S., Ostfeld, A. (eds) Handbook of Water and Wastewater Systems Protection. Protecting Critical Infrastructure, vol 2. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-0189-6_3
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