Infrastructures are interconnected and interdependent. Try moving natural gas or fuels on a pipeline without electricity!
See this
Washington Post article that provides
Six Maps of Critical Infrastructure here in the United States. What is missing from these maps is having them include Canada. We are significantly linked to our Canadian partners to the north.
My work at the Pacific Northwest Economic Region has focused me on those connections. We do not live on the United States Island. We are part of a much broader North American economy and the sooner we understand that the better off we will be.
One of the things we are all anticipating is what the new Trump Administration do about repairing and rebuilding our nation's critical infrastructure. With the preferred method of deferring maintenance we have dug ourselves into a deep infrastructure deficient hole. We cannot be a great nation if our roads, bridges, rails, power systems are fragile.
Eric Holdeman is a contributing writer for Emergency Management magazine and is the former director of the King County, Wash., Office of Emergency Management.
