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So, it’s up to you – either you would get a guy at the entrance that would confirm who can get
an access and possibly he would get the victim of social engineering or you would rely on
advanced technology and employ more cyber staffs to protect your asset.

Remember that the weapon to a bio-terrorism could get packed into small envelopes and put
into someone’s pocket. Similarly, in case of chemical attack the substance could get in solid or
liquid form also being packed into your pocket. It’s clear what the consequences of those
diversions to the end-users could be. The entire area could get poisoned or sick from those
biological or chemical weapons.

How transfer of water could get threatened

The water would usually get transferred from the water supply facilities to the end-users using
the piping system. As it’s known, the reliability of this system would depend on some piping
parameters such as piping material, tube size, ring size and the other piping properties. It’s so
feasible that the entire piping system may collapse if the pressure in the tubes gets so high.

The common reason to such a scenario could be that the entire control system would operate
with some malfunction and consequently – it would not assure the appropriate pressure to those
piping elements.

So often, the piping route would use the tubes being the mix of two materials such as plastic
and metal making such a plant being of composite nature. The composite materials got highly
good characteristics and they may assure the certain level of security to a water delivery
system.

For instance, if – for some reason – the control system begins working with the flaw – the
pressure within the pipes may start oscillating causing the additional load to the water tubes.

If the pressure gets too high – the pipes could explode making the collapse of water supply
system and leaving people without the clean water. It’s getting clear how it could get risky to a
human health when people live without the healthy water. More people stay without the running
water, worse the consequences to their health would be.

Also, it’s so significant that the water piping would get the internal layer of waterproof material
that would guarantee that the tubes would not corrode from inside and cause some sort of toxic
implications.

This is so important to take into account when you do a project for water delivery systems,
because the end-users should get confident that they would consume something non-
dangerous.

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