Stuff About Iraq You Won’t Hear in the Media, Part Deux…

From the Operation Iraqi Freedom website:
USAID improving Iraqi quality of life

BAGHDAD — The United States Agency for International Development, better known around the world as USAID, is making drastic improvements to the Iraqi infrastructure and improving the quality of life for millions.
The agency maintains a myriad of projects at any given time, and spends millions of dollars to see them through from start to finish. Whether it’s improving Iraqi canals, ensuring local populations have clean drinking water or restoring city markets, the USAID footprint is prominent and welcome here.

One such undertaking was a massive project resulting in 1.75 million Basrah citizens gaining access to fresh drinking water. The aim: upgrade the Sweet Water canal to modern times.

The Sweet Water Canal, constructed in 1996 to supply water to Iraqis, pumps water to twenty-three plants around BasrahCity which treat and distribute water into the city. Saddam Hussein’s old regime neglected the operation, and hadn’t conducted maintenance since 1999. This resulted in the facility operating at less than half its capacity, leaving more than 80 percent of the treated water unfit to drink.

Story and photos, including how the al Korea market has been totally renovated and cleaned up, here.
Must-read stuff, friends. Let’s get the truth out on all the good our people are doing in Iraq.
William Smith
Conservative Blogger.com