"New Bills Look To Help Small Water Systems Tap Cybersecurity Help"

Water is crucial to life for communities across the US, but water systems are facing increasingly complex threats, including cyberattacks. Therefore, House and Senate lawmakers have introduced a pair of bills aimed at bolstering the cybersecurity of clean water and wastewater utilities. The Water System Threat Preparedness and Resilience Act plans to make it simpler for utilities to get information regarding potential cyberattacks or natural disasters that could have a significant impact on operations. The legislation plans to accomplish this by helping small utilities join the Water Information Sharing and Analysis Center (WaterISAC) through a proposed Environmental Protection Agency grant program. WaterISAC, a nonprofit organization founded in 2002 and governed by a board of directors composed of water and wastewater utility managers and state drinking water administrators, delivers critical infrastructure threat intelligence to members. This article continues to discuss the Water System Threat Preparedness and Resilience Act. 

GCN reports "New Bills Look To Help Small Water Systems Tap Cybersecurity Help"