> What about Department of Homeland Security's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), where are they in all of this?

The CISA does this type of thing all the time. Here is an example just from their recent news releases in the past week: https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/2024/11/21/cisa-rele...

The CISA offers to assist infrastructure providers in a number of ways: https://www.cisa.gov/resources-tools/services/assist-visits Presumably the NRWA could have asked the CISA for help with this initiative.

The CISA has 3,000 employees and a budget of $3B, which is a lot, but not enough where they can be involved in everything. For reference there are 12,500 utility scale power plants and 148,000 public water systems in the United States. The scale of the problem means they must be mostly an advisory organization, where most of the work gets done by people at the infrastructure organizations or, sure, volunteers.

Now, I’m not saying that the CISA is doing a good job, I genuinely have no idea. Determining that would take a lot of knowledge, probably insider knowledge, and weighing what they’re doing against what resources they have available. But them not being involved in some random project that showed up in your newsfeed doesn’t mean they have severely failed.

Agreed, that i also have no idea how CISA is performing; i honestly cannot say anything good or bad - since i have zero data to substantiate my opinuion.

> ...But them not being involved in some random project that showed up in your newsfeed doesn’t mean they have severely failed.

I surely and honestly hope that you are correct!