HELMAND PROVINCE, AFGHANISTAN - JULY 21: A KBR (UK) employee test for the bacteriological content in a sample of water at the water testing laboratory, at the Camp Bastion Water Bottling Plant on July 21, 2008 at the British Army base in Camp Bastion in the Helmand Province, Afghanistan. The Bastion Water Bottling Plant supplies and delivers bottled drinking water and bulk drinking water for all of the coalition forces and contractors that live and work in Camp Bastion. The water's also supplied to the Forward Operating Bases (FOBs) by road or air drop via the military chain. The bottling plant has its own Water Testing Laboratory where it is tested according to European Directive. Mainly workers are from Sri Lanka and Nepal and are employed in the plant that has been open now for about 22 weeks and has produced 2,634,284 litres of bottled drinking water, of which 2,512,180 litres have already been delivered to the troops on the ground. Getty Images logo Getty Images 17 months ago

HELMAND PROVINCE, AFGHANISTAN - JULY 21: A KBR (UK) employee test for the bacteriological content in a sample of water at the water testing laboratory, at the Camp Bastion Water Bottling Plant on July 21, 2008 at the British Army base in Camp Bastion in the Helmand Province, Afghanistan. The Bastion Water Bottling Plant supplies and delivers bottled drinking water and bulk drinking water for all of the coalition forces and contractors that live and work in Camp Bastion. The water's also supplied to the Forward Operating Bases (FOBs) by road or air drop via the military chain. The bottling plant has its own Water Testing Laboratory where it is tested according to European Directive. Mainly workers are from Sri Lanka and Nepal and are employed in the plant that has been open now for about 22 weeks and has produced 2,634,284 litres of bottled drinking water, of which 2,512,180 litres have already been delivered to the troops on the ground.

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