[CPEO-MEF] GLOBAL: Bottled water for Navy families in Naples, Italy

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Free bottled water flows in Naples

By Lisa M. Novak
Stars and Stripes European edition
December 6, 2008



NAPLES - The Navy's program to provide bottled water to off-base 
residents in Naples will not end in December as previously announced.

On Nov. 25, Secretary of the Navy Donald Winter approved $119,000 to be 
used by the Navy to purchase water to minimize residents' exposure to 
the contaminated water detected in many off-base homes.

Previously, Winter had approved $144,000 to get the free-water program 
started in September. At the time, Navy Region Europe officials said the 
water would be distributed until "more permanent solutions can be found 
and implemented."

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For the entire article, see
http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=59248

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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Fax: 650/961-8918
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