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Katrina stories highlight new realities of disaster planning
Author(s) -
Scharfenaker Mark
Publication year - 2006
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.1551-8833.2006.tb07675.x
Subject(s) - summit , hurricane katrina , disaster response , state (computer science) , political science , public administration , emergency management , disaster planning , environmental planning , natural disaster , geography , poison control , suicide prevention , law , meteorology , computer science , cartography , medical emergency , medicine , algorithm
This article summarizes the American Water Works Association's (AWWA) 7th Annual Public Officials Summit. This year its focus was on the new realities facing those responsible for disaster planning, response, and recovery in the wake of the well‐documented failures by local, state, and federal governments to handle Hurricane Katrina. The article relates Katrina response stories presented by water utility managers, operators and state regulatory officials from Mississippi and Louisiana, along with presentations by representatives of utilities from other states that rushed to the aid of water suppliers along the Gulf Coast.