1993年在威斯康星州密尔沃基等地爆发的隐孢子虫病 最近在加拿大沃克顿发生的大肠杆菌悲剧突显了供水设施的必要性 与当地公共卫生和应急部门建立并保持有效的合作关系 规划机构。在得克萨斯州圣安东尼奥市，当地的水务公司与当地 应急计划委员会（LEPC）能够参与模拟演习 水传播疾病暴发和与当地公共卫生专业人员进行桌面锻炼 以及监管机构官员。 《不要喝模拟水》报道了这种疾病是如何爆发的 设计为一项培训活动，向基础设施管理人员介绍水和再利用水的操作人员 公共卫生官员在调查一个病例时使用的流行病学技术 疑似水传播疾病暴发。团队合作，提供参与者 出现水传播疾病症状的个人信息。 各队 包括供水运营商、公共卫生保健员和监管机构专业人员。 参与者使用患者病史中的数据构建流行病学曲线，以 估计接触的时间，并确定最可能的疾病来源 野餐使用基本流行病学技术计算特定食品和饮料 由于发病率高，有可能消除导致疾病的污染水 并确定野餐时吃的虾是可能的来源。

The 1993 Cryptosporidium illness outbreak in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and the more recent E. coli tragedy in Walkerton, Canada underline the need for water utilities to establish and maintain effective partnerships with local public health and emergency planning agencies. In San Antonio, Texas local water utilities working with their Local Emergency Planning Committee (LEPC) were able to participate in a simulated waterborne illness outbreak and tabletop exercise with local public health professionals and regulatory agency officials. This paper reports how a simulated disease outbreak, "Don't Drink the Water", was designed as a training exercise to introduce water and reuse water operators to basic epidemiological techniques used by public health officials in the investigation of a suspected waterborne illness outbreak. Working in teams, participants were provided information on individuals experiencing symptoms of a waterborne illness. Each team included water operators, public health sanitarians and regulatory agency professionals. Participants used data from patient histories to construct an epidemiological curve to approximate the time of exposure and to identify the most likely source of the illness as a picnic. Using basic epidemiological techniques to calculate specific food and beverage attack rates, it was possible to eliminate contaminated water as the cause of the illness and to identify shrimp consumed during a picnic as the probable source.