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Urban areas rely on infrastructure that collects, purifies and distributes drinking water to the population. This infrastructure is vulnerable to two attack vectors: destruction and pollution. Both attacks entail direct and indirect damages whose impact is simulated by a compartmentalized model. An operationalization with four variables and ten parameters is proposed, and opportunities to develop this model for more complex scenarios are discussed.
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A notable exemption are catchment lakes which are not considered for the purposes of this model.
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However, not all water supply systems have a coarse distribution network since storage facilities are sometimes located within urban areas.
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Since the physical and psychological stress for the population associated with an attack on their water supply is likely remembered for a long time, η is modeled as the smallest of all rates, and it is assumed to be significantly smaller than χ.
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Liechti, J.I. (2020). Deliberate Attacks on Freshwater Supply Systems: A Compartmentalized Model for Damage Assessment. In: Keupp, M. (eds) The Security of Critical Infrastructures. International Series in Operations Research & Management Science, vol 288. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-41826-7_4
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