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NATO Finances Technion Research to Protect Water Supplies
[Jerusalem Post] Jonny Paul - NATO is financing research at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa on protecting water supply systems against biological and chemical terrorism. Prof. Israel Schechter of the Faculty of Chemistry said: "In the wake of the discovery of al-Qaeda documents and plans in Afghanistan, the FBI was alerted that the organization was planning a terror attack on water sources. It became apparent that water distribution systems in the U.S., Israel, and the rest of the world's developed nations are totally exposed." Previously, chemical attacks on water supplies were considered very difficult to carry out because the contaminants would be quickly diluted. However Schechter identified a way in which a handful of a certain type of poison could be put into water sources and cause mass fatalities despite the dilution factor. He then began to develop a device to detect the chemical poisoning of water and neutralize it.