On behalf of our servicepeople and their safety, please don’t run with those scissors, Wadi:
More than 130,000 residents of Kamaliyah have a more sanitary way to remove sewage from their homes and streets with the official opening of an extensive sewer system here, Sept. 3.
We in the United States generally take it for granted that when we flush our toilets it doesn’t go right into our drinking water, but many people in other countries are not so fortunate. Just one more improvement to Iraqi lives that wouldn’t have happened if not for the removal of Saddam Hussein, who tended to see tanks, guns, palaces, rape rooms, and WMD as better uses of public funds.
The project took about four years to complete and faced a great amount of adversity along the path to fruition, said Maj. Robert Culberson, officer in charge of the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers resident office on Forward Operating Base Loyalty. “This is a major success,†commented Culberson, claiming that the sewer system will benefit more than 130,000 residents in Fedaliyah. The system, which is capable of funneling 1.3 million gallons of waste a day, includes 14 pumping stations and encompasses 100 kilometers of piping, he explained.
A difficult, years-long effort to move the crap out of Iraqi lives. A perfect sort of symbolism there, I think.
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No blood for doody!!!   Â
My inner lefty is feeling very ornery today….
Jams, let your ornery flow ;-)Â Looks like thanks to The United States of America the Iraq people can let theirs flow ;-)
MJ,
Heheheheh!
I just spent a weekend at Agile Summer Camp, with no sewer system. In two days with a dozen attendees, the outhouse went from freshly pumped to practically unusable from the stench. We too easily forget how important basic sanitation services are.
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