在华盛顿的指导下进行的三次演习吸取了许多经验教训 来自美国卫生部饮用水办公室。 环境保护局。这些演习是用水单独进行的 公用事业公司、应急响应机构、监管机构和其他位于不同地区的机构 2004年7月，华盛顿州。这些练习的目的是提供一个学习机会 环境，使参与者了解彼此的应急责任和 程序，并确定应急响应中的不足和成功之处 一般适用于水系统紧急情况。场景涉及一种化学物质 污染事件、生物污染事件和感知生物污染事件 污染 从这些演习中吸取的经验教训对指导未来的供水系统建设非常有用 应急演习，以及为现实生活中的应急响应做准备。三点以后 在演习中，项目团队确认了适用于所有紧急情况的特定主题 情节。这些是: 所有参与该项目的机构之间需要沟通和信息交流 水系统紧急情况； 在紧急情况发生前了解角色和职责将有助于在紧急情况下顺利恢复 紧急情况； 水取样程序至关重要，需要为每个水系统制定； 与公众的沟通可以得到改善，供水系统必须做好准备 与媒体合作；和 进行一次成功的练习并从中吸取教训可能需要 特别的技巧。 在每个主题中吸取的经验教训包括与主题相关的问题、进展如何以及 哪些没有，以及解决这些问题的可能解决方案。 包括数字。

Many lessons were learned from three exercises conducted at the direction of the Washington State Department of Health, Office of Drinking Water, under a grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The exercises were conducted separately with water utilities, emergency responders, regulatory agencies, and others in different regions of Washington State in July 2004. The purpose of these exercises was to provide a learning environment to acquaint participants with each others' emergency responsibilities and procedures, and to determine shortfalls and successes in emergency response that are applicable to water system emergencies in general. Scenarios involved a chemical contamination event, biological contamination event, and perceived biological contamination. Lessons learned from the exercises can be useful in conducting future water system emergency exercises, and in preparing for real-life emergency response. After three exercises, the project team recognized particular themes that applied to all the emergency scenarios. These are: a need for communication and information exchange between all agencies involved in water system emergencies; understanding roles and responsibilities before an emergency will smooth recovery during an emergency; water sampling procedures are vital and need to be developed for each water system; communications with the public can be improved, and water systems must be prepared to work with the media; and, conducting a successful exercise and capturing the lessons learned from it may require particular techniques. Lessons learned within each theme include issues related to the theme, what went well and what did not, and possible solutions to address the issues. Includes figure.