It looks like a typical spring water bottling plant -- in the Scottish Highlands perhaps, or maybe the French Alps. But this factory, processing more than 15,000 gallons a day, is in a somewhat more unusual location: the middle of the Afghan desert.
Pumping water from boreholes sunk deep below the parched ground of Camp Bastion, this is the Army's first-ever bottling plant. It produces enough water to supply all 14,000 troops stationed there and experts say the quality is as good as any expensive mineral water you can buy in Britain.
The facility was built after a series of Taliban attacks on the supply lines bringing drinking water from Pakistan and the Middle East to the camp in Helmand province.
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