can response help prevention, mitigation and recovery to work together in the best possible way ? Efficient communication is essential – in all its forms – and under the best possible conditions for every partner involved in the situation. When Time-Critical becomes the main issue, response is needed from and for the interested structures. The pollution of drinking water is an insidious danger. It’s less evident than a larger scale catastrophe like an earthquake, but it’s faster and acts surreptitiously.

Response can help prevention : the constant monitoring of water through a network of sensors, for example, can prevent the worst from happening. Response can help mitigation : an action plan and a specific infrastructure offer another means of reducing the possible consequences of an incident. Response can help recovery : communication between interested partners and rescue forces, local structures, mass media and citizens is essential, to enable the return to a “normal” situation as soon as possible.

All of this is made possible by pursuing the goal of Time Critical, which allows every single actor of the Action Plan to achieve not only optimal preparedness against a possible crisis, but to obtain it in the fastest way, avoiding numerous problems related to bureaucracy, for example. So how can response help prevention, mitigation and recovery ?

Response is the element that links prevention, mitigation and recovery.

Thanks to response, it is easier to make all these different elements work together in the best way. Thanks to response, moving from one phase to another of the action plan is made much easier.

Thanks to response, actions within the action plan for crisis preparedness can be adopted sooner.