Australians install windmills in South Vietnam DPR/TV/1027

The windmill, all but vanished from the American landscape, is suddenly appearing in small hamlets in South Vietnam. The First Australian Civil Affairs Unit, part of the 1st Australian Task Force based at Nui Dat, is busy installing windmills and laying pipe tp provide local villagers with regular water supply systems. In most villages, hand dug wells are the principal source of water and the villagers have to visit the wells with buckets and jugs in time honoured fashion. The Australian plan is to provide water retriculation systems for twelve separate hamlets in Phuoc Tuy Province. Each system will be similar to this one, in the village of Le Vin. There is a constant, gentle, wind in the area. The windmill pumps water from the ground into a 10,000 gallon tank which connects to a pipe system, with taps at regular intervals around the village. Normally, the windmill will pump about 30,000 gallons of water from the ground each day. The men from "Down Under" are doing an excellent job in gaining the trust and friendship of the Vietnamese people, participating in a number of projects which hepl improve the villagers' standard of living.