"Deliberate attacks on water and sanitation are attacks on vulnerable children," said Fore.
We find that the investigated network has stronger robustness against random failures than that when facing deliberate attacks.
Like torture, deliberate attacks on health care facilities and aid workers are illegal, according to international law.
Joanne Liu, MSF International president, told reporters in Geneva that deliberate attacks on civilian infrastructures were routine.
She added: "He persecuted civilians on ethnic grounds, through deliberate attacks, forced displacement, murder, rape, sexual enslavement and pillaging.
In order to protect against such deliberate attacks on a WDN, an effective and efficient online monitoring system through sensors is needed.
Modern societies have reached a point where everyday life relies heavily on desired operation of critical infrastructures, in spite of accidental failures and/or deliberate attacks.
The computer network, which is also used to carry business information about the power system, also could be vulnerable to deliberate attacks, he added.
"There is a substantial difference between such deliberate attacks against civilians and children and unintentional strikes against civilians that are part of legitimate actions to fight terrorism.
The fire-bombing of Dresden and Tokyo and the dropping of atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were deliberate attacks on hundreds of thousands of civilians.
Meanwhile, he added, there was little concrete evidence of deliberate attacks on civilians that could be a basis for intervention, as opposed to attacks on military bases.
