Drinking Water System Security
Current understanding
To be populated as evidence accumulates.
Evidence log
- 2023-07-19 — Cybersecurity for Rural Water Systems Act: cross-connection with drinking-water-wastewater-infrastructure: The bill links rural water infrastructure assistance with system security by proposing USDA cybersecurity specialists to support vulnerability assessments and digital defenses at small rural water and wastewater utilities. (novelty: 2)
- 2009-10-23 — Drinking Water System Security Act of 2009: H.R. 3258 (111th Congress), the Drinking Water System Security Act of 2009, was reported to the House calendar and would have required community water systems serving >3,300 people to conduct vulnerability assessments, meet EPA-set security standards, train personnel, and file emergency response plans with EPA; the bill did not become law and imposed no current legal obligations. (novelty: 2)