Update on Iraq’s Progress
State Dept. PDF of 7-19-2006
- Modernization of the Maternity and Child Hospital in Irbil, a city of about 900,000, is now complete. The $6.8 million in USG-funded renovations included major structural repairs, a water purification system, a medical waste incinerator, and back-up generators for uninterrupted power.
- The Iraqi Police Service graduated 3,412 students from basic training courses July 8-15.
- Four Iraqi Army division headquarters, 20 brigade headquarters, and more than 70 battalions are currently in the lead in their respective geographic areas.
- During the week of July 12-18, electricity availability averaged 7.3 hours per day in Baghdad and 11.7 hours nationwide. Electricity output reached a post-war record July 17, but for the week was one percent below the same period in 2005.
- Nine well projects were completed in a portion of the Ninawa Province, which historically has made little use of its surface water. Each well is capable of providing more than 10,000 gallons of water per day.
- To assist in restocking the fish supply, USAID’s Agriculture Reconstruction
and Development Program for Iraq (ARDI) plans to purchase a total of one million fish fingerlings from private hatcheries in Basra and Babil to be released in the Basra and Dhi Qar Marshes. The first batch was successfully distributed July 3 to the al Hammar Marsh in Basra and contained approximately 225,000 fish fingerlings.
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So this means New Orleans will be at about the same level in 4 years?