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Ex-Employee Remotely Hacks Kansas Water Treatment Plant A former employee of a water district plant in Ellsworth, Kan., allegedly logged in and attempted to tamper with the public drinking water system. This is just one of several recent hacks on water systems nationwide. Jonathan Shorman and Steve Vockrodt, The Kansas City Star | April 13, 2021 | Analysis
(TNS) Wyatt Travnichek was just entering his 20s, but he had a vital job.
After residents across eight central Kansas counties headed home for the night, Travnichek would keep watch virtually over the utility that supplied them with clean drinking water.
As a worker at the Post Rock Rural Water District, headquartered in Ellsworth, he was periodically responsible for monitoring the plant after hours by remotely logging into its computer system. His duties lasted until he resigned in January 2019, the circumstances of which are unclear.
”The money has to come from somewhere to be able to pay these folks, Grinstead said. I don t know what the magic answer for that is but it does happen. It s our desire to add more operators to the field. Hopefully there ll be enough eventually to get moved around and these smaller systems can hire somebody that s certified that can do the job and do it correctly and those safely.”
In 2019, a study from the University of North Carolina School of Government suggested that one way to address the shortage is through apprenticeship or training programs.
The National Rural Water Association created a program meant to preserve institutional knowledge of the systems.
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