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To: goldworldnet who wrote (524984)	1/16/2004 9:05:54 AM
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Did You Know? Essential Services In the seaport of Umm Qasr, the grain ship Fuente is unloading 52,185 tons of wheat into the grain receiving facility. The restoration of this facility is a major goal of the port rehabilitation. The Fuente is the second grain ship to arrive at Umm Qasr since the end of the war. (DFID) Sweet Water Canal project, Basrah. (USAID) Bechtel's dredging of the 240-km Sweet Water Canal terminal reservoir at Basrah is nearly complete. Full restoration of the system will double the flow of clean water to residents. (USAID) USAID partner Siemens is rehabilitating the Doura power plant in southwest Baghdad. Besides refurbishing the turbines and replacing the obsolete electrical control system, the rehabilitation includes upgrading the switchyard and repairing auxiliary systems. (USAID) Sewing-machine operator at Al Khadra'a.(USAID) Through the Community Action Program, USAID partner IRD is providing equipment and supplies to the Al Khadhra’a Society for Productive Families cooperative in Baghdad. The women-run cooperative produces textile products, ranging from canvas bags to intimate apparel. Work at the cooperative combines center-based heavy duty work with home-based piecemeal work, turning the facility into a meeting place as well as a source of income for the community. The rehabilitation of Al Khadhra’a will benefit 5,000 families. (USAID) USAID Community Action Program partners Save the Children and CRS/Caritas are working together with the Community Action Group in Al Taar to repair the veterinary clinic and to provide essential equipment to improve the health of local livestock. Veterinarians from the clinic attend to more than 20 animals a day visiting farms and ranches. (USAID) Using their own construction equipment and supplies provided by the Mosul government, U.S. engineers built a dam to prevent the water in Mosul from contamination by crude oil leaking from a ruptured oil pipe. After cleaning the oil out of the concrete water tanks, the engineers built a dam by placing pipes on the bottom of the creek and then dropping rocks on top to collect the crude and keep it from reaching the Tigris river. (DefendAmerica) usinfo.state.gov