Flushable wipes and Iran: Water treatment facility adds cyber attacks to worry list

Chris Hughes, assistant water and wastewater operator for the towns of Cavendish and Proctorsville in Vermont, deals with the effects of a power outage at a drinking water facility.

Water treatment workers are grappling with how to protect against a new threat: hackers burrowing into the system and wreaking havoc.

(Image credit: Claire Harbage)