The critical infrastructure of fresh water is one of the most important resources for ensuring patient care, particularly in hospitals. How can patient care be maintained if the drinking water supply is interrupted or quality requirements are no longer complied with? In the past, it was apparent that drinking water supplies were repeatedly threatened or extensively damaged during extreme weather events. How can hospitals, water providers, public health departments and relief organizations work together to respond to such events? This task cannot be accomplished by any single organization alone. Therefore, the workshop will focus on cross-organizational cooperation, organizational interfaces and comprehensive preliminary planning of such scenarios at all levels. Impulses from the BMBF research project NOWATER will be introduced and proposed solutions from science and practice will be discussed with the participants. In addition, the needs of the individual actors as well as their capacities to cope
with such events will be surveyed in order to integrate them into the further work in the research project NOWATER and thus enable a high level of integration with practitioners.