Kellogg Brown and Root(KBR), a subsidiary of Haliburton, provided water to U.S. troops in Iraq which was twice as contaminated as water from the Euphrates River, and blocked employees' attempts to tell the U.S. military at Camp Junction City in Ramadi that the water was foul or that it should immediately be chlorinated.
Ben Carter, a water purification specialist who worked for KBR at Junction City, told Senate Democrats during hearnings in Washington, that KBR officials had assured him the water was being treated.
When Carter discovered a problem, he started tests and learned that the water drawn from the Euphrates and polluted with sewage and other contaminates, was not being chlorinated, as reported by Reuters.
