America’s Crumbling Infrastructure Will Challenge Emergency Managers For Decades

They call it “critical” infrastructure for a reason. Roads and bridges, energy, water, even the food supply: The loss of any one of these can bring a region to its knees.

It’s not just the collapse of a critical resource that can wreak havoc. Rather, it’s the inherent interdependencies within these systems — the potential for a domino effect of failures — coupled with the complex nature of public and private interests inherent in critical infrastructure.

To understand how critical infrastructure drives unique challenges for emergency managers, it helps to start with a real-world example.

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