Firm Failed to Protect U.S. Troops' Water (I let you guess which firm :)

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http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Halliburton-Contaminated-Water.html

March 16, 2006
Firm Failed to Protect U.S. Troops' Water
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Filed at 3:01 a.m. ET

WASHINGTON (AP) -- 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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Halliburton said Wednesday it conducted a second review last year that found no evidence of any illnesses in Iraq from water and it believes some of its earlier conclusions were incomplete and inaccurate. The company declined to release the second report.

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