AWWA J100-21 Risk and Resilience Management of Water and Wastewater Systems
SKU: 40100-2021
The purpose of this standard is to enable water and wastewater utility owners and operators to make sound decisions when allocating limited resources to reducing risk and improving resilience. This standard sets the requirements for all-hazards risk and resilience analysis and management for the water sector. It provides methodology and resource material that can be used for satisfying these requirements. This standards describes and documents a process for identifying risk as a function of the consequences, vulnerabilities, and likelihood of man-made threats, natural hazards, and dependency and proximity hazards.
Description
This standard is an American National Standard, as designated by the American National Standards Institute, and falls under the jurisdiction of theAmerican Water Works Association (AWWA). This jurisdiction is exercised by the AWWA J100 Risk and Resilience Management Standards Committee. This standard is aligned with the intent of National Homeland Security Policy, including the National Infrastructure Protection Plan (NIPP), National Incident Management System (NIMS), and National Response Framework (NRF). This standard can be applied to the evaluation of risk and support risk reduction and/or resilience improvement in water and wastewater utilities. The J100 methodology may also enable the decision-makers in a wide variety of infrastructures, other facilities, and operational organizations. The same methodology has been successfully applied in settings as diverse as nuclear power plants, electricity distribution, roads and bridges, and emergency response dispatch.