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Sheik Abu Mohammed turns the valve to release water to test the new water purification system in Radwaniya.  Speaking in his native Arabic tongue to a gathering of about 100 people, Abu Mohammad, a local sheik, pauses and allows the interpreter to catch up with him, “This is going to feed 150 homes with clean drinking water. We get irrigation water and boil it and that is why everyone was getting sick, because it not a good water to drink.”  The system was made possible through the efforts of the 1st Battalion, 320th Field Artillery Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division that is currently serving with the Arkansas National Guard’s 39th Infantry Brigade Combat Team.  (Photo by Maj. Craig Heathscott, 39th Infantry Brigade Combat Team Public Affairs Office)