Millions Get First Tap Water in Eight Years

Defend America News ^ | Jan 18, 2006 | Norris Jones

[SandRat]

Millions Get First Tap Water in Eight Years
Iraqi workers completed repairs to two water treatment plants in south Baghdad.
By Norris Jones Gulf Region Central District U.S. Army Corps of Engineers BAGHDAD, Iraq, Jan. 18, 2005 — Despite insurgent activity, Iraqi workers completed repairs to two water treatment plants in south Baghdad after nearly four months of work. Due to their skill and bravery, an estimated one million Baghdad residents will benefit from the renovations that continued regardless of insurgent attacks. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Gulf Region Central (GRC), provided oversight for the restoration project. Local workers cleaned the large, 34-meter sedimentation basins, repaired pumps and generators, and installed new chlorine pumps. Because of these combined efforts, each treatment plant now produces about 2,000 cubic meters of clean, potable water per hour. “Mahmoudiya and Latifiya residents in south Baghdad this week had water flowing from their faucets for the first time in nearly eight years,” said Alfred Everett, GRC Resident Engineer supporting the U.S. Army 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division. “That’s what people in those communities are telling us.” A Baghdad firm was awarded the project to rehabilitate two water treatment plants servicing the areas northwest of Latifiya along the Euphrates River.	Crews repair a generator at one of two water treatment facilities near Latifiyah, Iraq that now provide residents fresh, portable water for the first time in eight years. Photo courtesy of Gulf Region Division “Despite setbacks and damage to the generators and other equipment in both facilities, the contractor successfully finished the job,” said Everett. “There’s no question that Iraqis working on these projects demonstrated significant courage every day.

[SandRat]

Cool, Clear, water!!!!1

[LasVegasMac]

Pretty sad that most of America will not know about things like this.

Our folks are doing a heck of a job over there.

LVM

[Emmett McCarthy]

Ted Kennedy says that "until they have Scotch to go with it, it's just another George Bush failure."

[Hodar]

It says a lot about a group of people who would sit by and do nothing to protect others, who are working to give them a water processing plant.

I wonder how many lives were lost, in an effort to give these people 'necessities' such as water.

The only thing missing from this article, is any sign of gratitude.

[SandRat]

So,..... spread the word to all you friends, family workers, and acquaintances.

[Peach]

Millions get tap water for the first time in 8 years in Iraq.

But just today we had a human rights organization write an article that was posted on FR that human rights in Iraq are worse than ever. Even when they lie, the leftists can't time things well.

[Plutarch]

...clean, potable water

The ads for bottled water make many claims, but never to be potable for some reason.

[LasVegasMac]

So,..... spread the word to all you friends, family workers, and acquaintances.

Everyday......non-stop.

LVM

[SirChas]

OK, I'll be the first.

It's Bush's fault!

[MarkL]

This can't be right! Dan Rather showed us all what a wonderful place Iraq was before the mean old US invaded and kicked the beloved president of Iraq out of office and into hiding!

It was the US than ruined everything in Iraq. I know it because that's what the Times tells me!

Mark

[No Longer Free State]

Strike Brigade Ping!

[OldFriend]

G-D bless all those toiling in the name of freedom.

[cgk]

But... the war hasn't been going on for 8 years - how can this be? /sarcasm!

[EternalVigilance]

Water from the tap. Probably the number one convenience of life...and the one we most often take for granted.

[MinuteGal]

I'll bet there's gratitude galore coming from most of the millions of Iraqis who now enjoy potable water. And they're probably expressing it to all who ask them about their feelings.

The problem is that the American MSM, and our insidious enemies in the wire services covering the globe such as Rueters, AP, etc. will never print what the thankful Iraqis are saying.

They'll search out the one bitter Saddam fan in two million getting clean water from their taps and they'll quote his feelings alone.

Leni

[manic4organic]

I saw this in my newspaper this morning. Wait, no I didn't. It wasn't there and won't be.

[A CA Guy]

Darn, the Republican plantation owners are getting water to the farms.

[Billthedrill]

Got that right. You never miss it until it's gone, and then you miss it bad.

[steve86]

provide residents fresh, portable water for the first time in eight years.

The majority of water is portable, in reasonable quantities. Maybe they were after potable water.