US Troops In Iraq Given Bad Water

You knew the name of the company involved immediately. Didn't you? Yep, its Halliburton.

Halliburton Co. failed to protect the water supply it is paid to purify for U.S. soldiers throughout Iraq, in one instance missing contamination that could have caused "mass sickness or death," an internal company report concluded.

The report, obtained by The Associated Press, said the company failed to assemble and use its own water purification equipment, allowing contaminated water directly from the Euphrates River to be used for washing and laundry at Camp Ar Ramadi in Ramadi, Iraq.

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"Countrywide, all camps suffer to some extent from all or some of the deficiencies noted," Wil Granger, Theatre Water Quality Manager in the war zone for Halliburton's KBR subsidiary, wrote in his May 2005 report.

Technically it was subsidiary KBR as identified in the story. Anyway, its still Halliburton, who was overcharging our government at the time while not doing their job.

There's much more to the story. The details make one wonder if Halliburton could, as has been suggested, adequately operate the US ports which DP World was going to operate.