[Congressional Record Volume 172, Number 106 (Wednesday, June 24, 2026)]
[Senate]
[Page S3454]
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SA 6326. Ms. ROSEN (for herself and Mr. Durbin) submitted an
amendment intended to be proposed by her to the bill S. 4784, to
authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2027 for military activities
of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for
defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military
personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes; which
was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:
At the appropriate place in title XVI, insert the
following:
SEC. ___. UPDATE OF INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY ASSESSMENT ON
GLOBAL WATER SECURITY.
(a) Update Required.--Not later than April 1, 2027, the
Director of National Intelligence, in coordination with the
Secretary of Defense and the heads of appropriate elements of
the intelligence community, shall submit to the appropriate
congressional committees an updated version of the
intelligence community assessment entitled ``Global Water
Security'' (ICA 2012-08), dated February 12, 2012 (referred
to in this section as the ``original assessment'').
(b) Contents.--The updated assessment required by
subsection (a) shall include--
(1) all elements in the original assessment with updated
data and analysis;
(2) relevant developments since the submission of the
original assessment;
(3) an analysis of the efforts of foreign adversarial
governments to gain access to, exert control over, or
manipulate water resources, including rate of acquisition of
or control over groundwater or surface water beyond sovereign
territory of such governments, including transboundary
waters, and geographical reach;
(4) an assessment of trends related to conflict over water
or attacks on water; and
(5) any additional matters the Director determines
appropriate or that the congressional intelligence committees
specify.
(c) Form.--The assessment required by this section shall be
submitted in unclassified form, but may include a classified
annex.
(d) Definitions.--In this section, the term ``appropriate
congressional committees'' means--
(1) the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on
Foreign Relations, the Permanent Select Committee on
Intelligence, and the Committee on Appropriations of the
Senate; and
(2) the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on
Foreign Affairs, the Select Committee on Intelligence, and
the Committee on Appropriations of the House of
Representatives.
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