 Water is a precious resource, especially in the desert. In addition to bottled drinking water, Marines with six engineer support company ensure enough clean water is available during Exercise African Lion 2011. Obviously behind me you can see the ocean. It's quite salty. We can't drink that. Kimball and his 21 Marines maintain this water station to ensure thousands of service members have drinkable water. It's coming up here to this raw water pump. It basically does most of the sucking out of the water. After settling the sediment, the water goes through a complex system of tubes. It goes through this micro filter. It's a strainer. It's a thicker piece right here in the pipe. And it runs through a bunch of tubing back there. High pressure pumps force the water through tiny holes, which catch all the minerals, leaving behind clean water to empty into a 20,000 gallon bladder. From Tantan, Morocco, I'm Marine Corporal Michael Krasinski.