UK company wins Iraq water contract

British engineering company Amec has secured a $1bn (€810m) contract to reconstruct Iraq's water supply.

The FluorAmec consortium was awarded two contracts to rebuild existing water systems and to construct new treatment and distribution plants.

Earlier this month, the US-UK partnership Fluor-Amec won another contract worth up to $500m (€409m) for power projects in the war-torn country.

FluorAmec will also work on rebuilding municipal sewers and constructing solid waste management systems in the north and south of Iraq.

The deal is one of 10 major construction projects being funded by the US Congress and provides relief to some British companies who felt that they were being sidelined by the United States when the Iraq contracts were divvied out.