Coalition, Iraqi Ministry Sign Historic Charter Agreement

Photo By Staff Sgt. Kevin Bromley | Ayad Al-Safee (left) the Deputy Minister of Technical Affairs for the Ministry of Municipalities and Public Works and Col. David Bishop, commander of 3rd Brigade Combat Team, discuss the Husseiniya Working Group Charter signed into effect August 1, 2005, while 2nd Lt. Shirley Kim looks on. The Working Group Charter was signed to improve and develop essential services such as drinking water, storm-drainage, and waste treatment facilities in Husseiniya Iraq. Husseiniya is a settlement that took root in the agricultural region north of Baghdad in the 1980s and the previous regime never extended basic public services to the area. The population of Husseiniya steadily increased to nearly 750,000 residents as more and more people moved to the town with their families. This large influx of people from the towns surrounding Baghdad created a public works crisis situation that continues to this day. (Photo by: Sgt. Kevin Bromley, 100th MPAD)  

BAGHDAD, IRAQ

08.10.2005

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100th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment

BAGHDAD -- The children of Husseiniya, a town north of Baghdad, play among heaps of trash, lakes of standing groundwater and open sewage.

The children of Husseiniya, a town north of Baghdad, play among heaps of trash, lakes of standing groundwater and open sewage.

Several miles away in north Baghdad, Col. David Bishop, commander of 3rd Brigade, 1st Armored Division; Ayad Al-Safee, the Deputy Minister of Technical Affairs for the Ministry of Municipalities and Public Works; Nanjar Manshed, the Al-Istaklah District Advisory Council Delegate; and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers signed a charter, Aug. 1, that will ensure the citizens and children of Husseiniya have a brighter and healthier future.

Husseiniya is a settlement that took root in the agricultural region north of Baghdad in the 1980s. Unfortunately, the Baghdad storm drainage and waste treatment facilities were designed and built from the late 1960s to early 1970s and the previous regime never extended these basic public services to the area.

The population of Husseiniya, now nearly 750,000, steadily increased in size as more and more people moved to the town with their families during the previous regime.

This large influx of people from the towns surrounding Baghdad created a public works crisis situation that continues to this day.

• Date Taken: 08.10.2005
• Date Posted: 08.10.2005 03:00
• Story ID: 2705
• Location: BAGHDAD, IQ