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It?s a messy job on the banks of the Euphrates River for Lance Cpl. Perry R. Shultz June 18, 2006, as he works the reverse osmosis water purification unit at Blue Diamond ? just outside of Ramadi. Shultz, a 20-year-old native of Sacramento, Calif., and two other Marines here utilize the system to produce 15,000 to 18,000 gallons of cleaned, purified and chlorinated water a day for Iraqi Security Forces. Without the water, the ISF would be severely limited in their ability to prepare food, shower and otherwise survive as they conduct missions in the region.