page_title: Critical infrastructure
hierarchical_section_title: Critical infrastructure
caption_attribution_description: English: Grand Coulee Dam spillway in June 2009.
context_page_description: Critical infrastructure is a term used by governments to describe assets that are essential for the functioning of a society and economy – the infrastructure. Most commonly associated with the term are facilities for:
  Shelter; Heating;
  Agriculture, food production and distribution;
  Water supply;
  Public health;
  Transportation systems;
  Security services.
  Electricity generation, transmission and distribution;
  Renewable energy, which are naturally replenished on a human timescale, such as sunlight, wind, rain, tides, waves, and geothermal heat.
  Telecommunication; coordination for successful operations
  Economic sector; Goods and services and financial services;
context_section_description: Critical infrastructure (or critical national infrastructure (CNI) in the UK) is a term used by governments to describe assets that are essential for the functioning of a society and economy – the infrastructure. Most commonly associated with the term are facilities for:
  Shelter; Heating (e.g. natural gas, fuel oil, district heating);
  Agriculture, food production and distribution;
  Water supply (drinking water, waste water/sewage, stemming of surface water (e.g. dikes and sluices));
  Public health (hospitals, ambulances);
  Transportation systems (fuel supply, railway network, airports, harbours, inland shipping);
  Security services (police, military).
  Electricity generation, transmission and distribution; (e.g. natural gas, fuel oil, coal, nuclear power)
  Renewable energy, which are naturally replenished on a human timescale, such as sunlight, wind, rain, tides, waves, and geothermal heat.
  Telecommunication; coordination for successful operations
  Economic sector; Goods and services and financial services (banking, clearing);
caption: Grand Coulee Dam
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