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Preventing the Transformation From Good to Bad
Author(s) -
Zimmerman Gary J.
Publication year - 2009
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.1551-8833.2009.tb09805.x
Subject(s) - general partnership , agency (philosophy) , political science , management , clean water , public administration , law , engineering , sociology , waste management , economics , social science
In his column, AWWA Executive Director Gary Zimmerman contrasts the use of chlorine for both good and bad reasons. The example he uses for chlorine put to good use is the wide‐scale use of it to disinfect drinking water; the bad use example is the use of chlorine in truck bombs in Baghdad during the Iraq War. He provides two examples of how AWWA has responded in important and impressive ways to deal with the potentially devastating effects that evil‐doers can produce from a good thing, including the AWWA Water Security Congress held on April 8‐10, 2009 in Washington, D.C., and the Water Infrastructure Security Enhancement (WISE) program, developed by AWWA in partnership with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the Water Environment Federation, and the American Society of Civil Engineers.