When a grocery store loses power, the owner loses sales and customers are inconvenienced. When a major website like Google or Facebook crashes, users are annoyed. When a factory is damaged in a tornado, production is halted and for a while the workers may be without jobs.
Generally speaking, in those instances, no one gets sick or dies. But when a water treatment plant must shut down because of some disaster, or if a drinking water distribution system is compromised, the impacts can be dire.
Seeing the rashes of storms and floods that have hit
