BAGHDAD -- U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker has christened a $56 million water-purification plant in the eastern part of Baghdad.
Baghdad government spokesman Hakim Abdul-Zahra told RFE/RL’s Radio Free Iraq that the plant will meet the daily needs of some 200,000 residents of restive Sadr City, where U.S.-backed Iraqi forces and the Imam Al-Mahdi Army Shi'ite militia clashed last spring.
The two-year project was commissioned by the U.S. Agency for International Development and built by a local contractor with technical help from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
Sadr City residents protected workers and machinery during construction, project manager Khalid Hassan told Radio Free Iraq.
Baghdad government spokesman Hakim Abdul-Zahra told RFE/RL’s Radio Free Iraq that the plant will meet the daily needs of some 200,000 residents of restive Sadr City, where U.S.-backed Iraqi forces and the Imam Al-Mahdi Army Shi'ite militia clashed last spring.
The two-year project was commissioned by the U.S. Agency for International Development and built by a local contractor with technical help from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
Sadr City residents protected workers and machinery during construction, project manager Khalid Hassan told Radio Free Iraq.