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Halliburton provided contaminated water to Soldiers

El_KabongEl_Kabong Posts: 4,141
edited February 2007 in A Moving Train
Ben Carter, a former Halliburton/KBR water purification specialist, discusses discovering Halliburton was providing dangerously contaminated water to troops, and the serious long-term implications.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeIxHQ-lkuM

Murky Water
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmbnRNs7dNU

Contaminated Water for US Troops
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHNCon5Q370
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  • sapperskunksapperskunk Posts: 684
    What did soldiers do for water in Iraq before Halliburton?
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  • El_KabongEl_Kabong Posts: 4,141
    sapperskunk wrote:
    What did soldiers do for water in Iraq before Halliburton?


    i don't know, maybe from a contractor that did the job right? does it matter? my guess is they didn't....halliburton probably had the contract from the beginning
    standin above the crowd
    he had a voice that was strong and loud and
    i swallowed his facade cos i'm so
    eager to identify with
    someone above the crowd
    someone who seemed to feel the same
    someone prepared to lead the way
  • RushlimboRushlimbo Posts: 832
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  • my2handsmy2hands Posts: 17,117
    just another example that the so called "leaders" care nothing about the soldiers. a quote i recently read is that "they are treated like a rich kids christmas present"... just take alook at what was going on at Walter Reed. fucking disgusting. or when early in the war injured soldiers were being billed for their meals at the hospitals they were treated at. they care nothing about these slodeirs, they are expendable like me and you. their willingness to use them as cannon fodder to secure natural resources is evidence enough for me, but i guess others need more evidence such as this story, or the Walter Reed story, or the story that will develop out of DU weapons, after it is too late.

    lets supports our troops and bring them home to their fucking families.
  • puremagicpuremagic Posts: 1,907
    sapperskunk wrote:
    What did soldiers do for water in Iraq before Halliburton?

    They were under the direct care of the U.S. military support group.


    They were suppose to be provided bottle water for drinking. The U.S. Army support groups were tasked with sitting up portable and mobile water purification plant as they did during Desert Storm. This job has now been privatized by the Pentagon and was part of Haliburton's no-bid awarded contract, plus they were suppose to be prepared to handle the troop requirements while repairing and rebuilding plants for municipal use. Due to poor planning, soldiers' in addition to the use of bottle water must also rely on the heavily chlorine and calcium treated local water provided to them through portal purification plants. Shortage of water treatment chemicals left many soldiers unknowingly exposed to contaminated water and its most common resulting disease of cholera. Yet on the other side of the dollar, inorder to keep Iraq's oil system operational, industrial water purification MUST take place. Why, because the high concentration of saline in Iraq's natural water supply is corresive to piping if not maintained.

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    Look, even their so called enemy couldn't standby and do nothing.
    Kuwait to send water purification plants to Iraq
    May 2003

    U.S. Water News Online

    KUWAIT CITY -- Kuwait said it was sending eight water purification and desalination plants to Iraq to help prevent the spread of cholera.

    http://www.uswaternews.com/archives/arcglobal/3kuwto5.html
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  • Pacomc79Pacomc79 Posts: 9,404
    Seems like they have a big enough contract where they could do desalination and or reverse osmosis easily. Yes I know it's very expensive, but they have a ridiculously large contract, if they are going to extract oil in the future anyway why not build a desalination plant?

    The chorinating process on that scale makes that water taste like pool water and it's not fun in your stomach either. Better than Giardia and Cholera no doubt, but still shitty, especially for the money in that contract. Hell I prefer potable aqua (iodine tablets) to that amount of chlorine

    This is another example of poor service on halliburtons part, they should be fired. This kind of oversite should never never never be tolerated. Where is the accountability?
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  • soulsingingsoulsinging Posts: 13,202
    El_Kabong wrote:
    Ben Carter, a former Halliburton/KBR water purification specialist, discusses discovering Halliburton was providing dangerously contaminated water to troops, and the serious long-term implications.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeIxHQ-lkuM

    Murky Water
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmbnRNs7dNU

    Contaminated Water for US Troops
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHNCon5Q370

    so what im reading here is that you hate america and dont support our troops? ;)
  • inmytreeinmytree Posts: 4,741
    Pacomc79 wrote:
    Seems like they have a big enough contract where they could do desalination and or reverse osmosis easily. Yes I know it's very expensive, but they have a ridiculously large contract, if they are going to extract oil in the future anyway why not build a desalination plant?

    The chorinating process on that scale makes that water taste like pool water and it's not fun in your stomach either. Better than Giardia and Cholera no doubt, but still shitty, especially for the money in that contract. Hell I prefer potable aqua (iodine tablets) to that amount of chlorine

    This is another example of poor service on halliburtons part, they should be fired. This kind of oversite should never never never be tolerated. Where is the accountability?

    right on, paco...

    I don't get it...some will say halliscrewu is the only company that can handle these contracts, yet they continue to screw up...

    and we get to foot the bill...
  • sapperskunksapperskunk Posts: 684
    puremagic wrote:
    They were under the direct care of the U.S. military support group.


    They were suppose to be provided bottle water for drinking. The U.S. Army support groups were tasked with sitting up portable and mobile water purification plant as they did during Desert Storm. This job has now been privatized by the Pentagon and was part of Haliburton's no-bid awarded contract, plus they were suppose to be prepared to handle the troop requirements while repairing and rebuilding plants for municipal use. Due to poor planning, soldiers' in addition to the use of bottle water must also rely on the heavily chlorine and calcium treated local water provided to them through portal purification plants. Shortage of water treatment chemicals left many soldiers unknowingly exposed to contaminated water and its most common resulting disease of cholera. Yet on the other side of the dollar, inorder to keep Iraq's oil system operational, industrial water purification MUST take place. Why, because the high concentration of saline in Iraq's natural water supply is corresive to piping if not maintained.

    =====
    Look, even their so called enemy couldn't standby and do nothing.
    Kuwait to send water purification plants to Iraq
    May 2003

    U.S. Water News Online

    KUWAIT CITY -- Kuwait said it was sending eight water purification and desalination plants to Iraq to help prevent the spread of cholera.

    http://www.uswaternews.com/archives/arcglobal/3kuwto5.html


    Correct sir, somewhat.

    We had bottled water for drinking provided by support groups. As far as water we showered and washed our clothes with, it was the same shit the Tigris spewed out to all the citizens of Baghdad.

    The rule of thumb was not to get any in your mouth. And take your Malaria pills.
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  • SuzannePjamSuzannePjam Posts: 411
    Bush and Cheney should have to drink a large glass of that contaminated Haliburton water every day. Hold the ice.
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  • El_KabongEl_Kabong Posts: 4,141
    http://www.halliburtonwatch.org/news/contamination.html

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHNCon5Q370
    has a bit more at the beginning but the last half or so is from the initial clip
    standin above the crowd
    he had a voice that was strong and loud and
    i swallowed his facade cos i'm so
    eager to identify with
    someone above the crowd
    someone who seemed to feel the same
    someone prepared to lead the way
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