Pure and secure drinking water is essential for life. It’s human nature to take our supply of safe drinking water for granted until something happens to it. Then, we wonder how we could have possibly ignored this vital resource.
Water is a primary point of vulnerability for high-security facilities.
While there are multiple threat scenarios, high-securities facilities should consider a bioterrorism or chemical attack on the water supplies as one possible approach open to terrorists. Drinking water for food preparation and water used in coffee, beverages, and ice-cubes must be protected and monitored.
Many US Embassies and military contractors have made the wise choice to install Pure Water Distillers to ensure pure and secure drinking water for staff, military attaches, and visitors. Some US Embassies have also wisely provided small household water distillers for Embassy personnel to use in their homes. Such systems utilize the only “fail-safe” water treatment technology: steam distillation.
POINTS OF VULNERABILITY
Poisoning the Incoming Water Supply: Terrorists do not have to poison the whole water supply. All they have to do is tap into a water line upstream from their intended target, inject their poison or biological weapon of choice, and let it flow downstream into the targeted building. This method has already been attempted (but failed) by Al-Qaeda to target the US Embassy in Rome.
Poisoning Delivered Bottled Water: Facilities that purchase bottled water from an outside vendor are potentially opening themselves up to a chemical or biological attack. The production, inventory, and delivery process of bottled water involves so many steps that companies simply cannot ensure its safety.
Other Forms of Attack Facilitated by Bottled Water Delivery Access: Giving delivery drivers (and their trucks) access to your facility increases the risk of intrusion and car bombs.
POTENTIAL TARGETS
These high-security facilities should ask us for more information on our secure drinking water solutions…
- US Embassies & other State Department Buildings
- FBI, CIA, NSA, and other Intelligence Facilities
- Congressional and Senate Offices
- Homes of political leaders
- Foreign Embassies
- Royal Palaces
- Military facilities
- Military contractors
- Nuclear Facilities
A WATERBORNE ATTACK
A waterborne chemical or biological attack is dangerous for seven reasons.
- The need for water is universal.
- Most facilities are vulnerable to an attack.
- You don’t know where an attack would come from,
- You don’t know what contaminant would be used,
- You won’t know you’ve been attacked until symptoms show up!
- It could affect a wide target area.
- Your existing water treatment system may provide a false feeling of security.
PURE WATER HIGH-SECURITY SOLUTIONS
For over 50 years, the Pure Water Brand has been recognized as the premier water treatment choice for protecting high-security facilities. We provide premium water distillers for these high-security facilities and small systems to protect the staff at home. We also offer risk assessment and water education services.
Please call us at 1-800-875-5915 for a quote on a secure water distillation system.
