CISA Releases the Drought and Infrastructure: A Planning Guide (Drought Guide)

CISA Releases the Drought and Infrastructure: A Planning Guide (Drought Guide)

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has released the Drought and Infrastructure: A Planning Guide (Drought Guide) to help CISA Regional staff, local, tribal, territorial, and regional governments, communities, infrastructure providers, and other stakeholders anticipate and reduce the potential consequences of droughts on critical water, transportation, dams, power, and other services. The Guide resulted from a collaborative inter-agency effort with members of National Drought Resilience Partnership. The Drought Guide is a supplement to CISA’s Infrastructure Resilience Planning Framework (IRPF) and is intended to be used as a resource for CISA Regions and PSAs who receive stakeholder requests related to drought.

The Drought Guide includes four sections: 1) an overview of drought and federal information sources on risk; 2) examples and an illustrative graphic of direct and indirect impacts that drought can have on infrastructure systems; 3) a table of federal tools and resources to assess vulnerability or mitigate risk of drought, which are organized according to the IRPF process; and 4) a list of additional information sources that can be requested from CISA and other agencies.

The Drought Guide is meant to be independently explored by users who are anticipating and preparing for the consequences of drought on infrastructure services. The guide directs users to the National Integrated Drought Information System (NIDIS) and other agencies’ information and decision tools.

For questions, please contact the Infrastructure Development and Recovery Program at IDR@cisa.dhs.gov.  To learn more, please visit CISA.gov/idr-program.

Steve Lyddon
Protective Security Advisor, Region 5, Illinois
Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency
U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Cell:  217-299-3954 | steven.lyddon@cisa.dhs.gov