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Expecting the Unexpected
Publication year - 1980
Publication title -
journal ‐ american water works association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.466
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1551-8833
pISSN - 0003-150X
DOI - 10.1002/j.1551-8833.1980.tb04492.x
Subject(s) - redundancy (engineering) , alarm , emergency planning , reliability (semiconductor) , event (particle physics) , risk analysis (engineering) , computer science , business , reliability engineering , operations management , engineering , emergency management , political science , power (physics) , physics , quantum mechanics , law , aerospace engineering
The possibility of failure or contamination of potable water supplies still sounds a mental alarm. That is evidence of the water industry's success in averting major disasters. Critical to this effort is adequate planning to ensure system reliability in the event of unexpected circumstances. Redundancy relates to the provision of standby equipment or processes that improve reliability. The April 1980 issue of JOURNAL AWWA addresses these issues as they relate to emergency planning.