A Soldier's Story: Delivering Water in War and Peace

Army veteran John Dorris once protected water convoys in Iraq — now he's a treatment plant operator near Denver
A Soldier's Story: Delivering Water in War and Peace
John Dorris got his water-operations training at Fort Lee in Virginia before his deployment to Iraq. Now he oversees the performance of a small Colorado city's wastewater treatment plant.

On a hot day in March 2005, Army E-4 Specialist John Dorris rode security through the war-torn streets of Baghdad, protecting a convoy whose reverse-osmosis water purification units (ROWPU) and re-supply cargo were always vulnerable to attack.

As the lumbering vehicles...

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