A water-pumping station failed, allowing pollutants to foul the water.
Kennedy continues to describe the grave consequences: "All of our lights, refrigerators, water-pumping stations, TVs and radios stop running.
They flew away from the water-pumping stations that penetrated the miles-thick icecap where hydrostatic pressure squeezed liquid water up to supply posts on the surface.
He also authorized Bechtel to install six new generators at water-pumping stations in the southern city of Basra.
He moved to New Hope several years ago at the height of a losing battle by residents of the area against a water-pumping station being built on the Delaware River.
Relief workers say most of Haiti's free clinics, water-pumping stations, food distribution centers and almost all relief efforts will eventually cease if the military Government does not release the fuel.
When the electricity went out during the war, the water-pumping station that serves this area 30 miles southeast of Baghdad shut down, and people were thirsty.
As troops searched the areas near the Euphrates River, they came across two small boats at a water-pumping station.
In 2006, they bought a large 1000m former water-pumping station dating to 1924 in Berlin's Neukölln borough from the city and converted it into a home and studio.