“These leading cyber firms and NRWA are architecting a scalable cyber delivery model that has eluded water industry officials to date.”
There are 50,000 community water systems in this country and 91 percent of them serve under 10,000 people. Those utilities have no security budget and no security staff. The fix arriving in 2026 is a volunteer corps and five vendors donating services. Drinking water for most of rural America is being defended by people doing it for free on the side.