{"id":372099,"date":"2022-07-11T06:00:46","date_gmt":"2022-07-10T20:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=372099"},"modified":"2022-07-11T06:00:46","modified_gmt":"2022-07-10T20:00:46","slug":"coast-guard-cutter-offloads-potable-water-on-kiribati-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/coast-guard-cutter-offloads-potable-water-on-kiribati-island\/","title":{"rendered":"Coast Guard cutter offloads potable water on Kiribati island"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_372103\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-372103\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Coast-Guard-pixwb.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Coast-Guard-pixwb.jpg\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-372103\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Coast Guard cutter Oliver Berry crew conducts a potable water offload while moored up at Kiritmati Island, Kiribati, July 8, 2022. (U.S. COAST GUARD\/USCGC OLIVER BERRY)<br \/><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>HONOLULU\u2014The U.S. Coast Guard provided safe drinking water to Kiritimati Island in Kiribati, last July 8, soon after the Republic of Kiribati declared a national state of emergency due to extreme drought.<\/p>\n<p>For over two days, the crew of the U.S. Coast Guard cutter <em>Oliver Berry<\/em> conducted contactless offloads of potable drinking water, working with the United Nations International Children\u2019s Emergency Fund representatives to support the local residents amidst the national state of emergency while maintaining strict COVID-19 precautions.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cOur crew is excited and humbled for the opportunity to support the people of Kiribati,\u201d said Lt. Micah Howell, commanding officer of the <em>Oliver Berry<\/em>. \u201cThanks to the coordination efforts of the U.S. Agency for International Development\u2019s Bureau of Humanitarian Assistance, UNICEF, and the Kiribati government, we are able to provide safe drinking water to the Island of Kiritimati at a time when it is needed most.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In addition to providing humanitarian assistance, the <em>Oliver Berr<\/em>y crew supported Kiribati maritime law enforcement efforts, providing patrol coverage in Kiribati\u2019s exclusive economic zone in order to deter illegal, unregulated, and unreported fishing, support Kiribati resource security, and strengthen maritime governance in Oceania.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe <em>Oliver Berry<\/em>\u2019s patrol demonstrates the United States Coast Guard\u2019s enduring commitment to our partner nations throughout Oceania,\u201d said Howell. \u201cInstances like these pave the way for future Coast Guard assets to support the Republic of Kiribati, and its citizens.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Oliver Berry<\/em> is one of the Coast Guards fast response cutters equipped with advanced command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance systems. At 154-feet long, they reach speeds of over 28-knots covering a distance of 2,500 nautical miles over a five-day patrol, greatly improving the Coast Guard\u2019s ability to conduct missions ranging from search and rescue to national defense while also contributing to joint operations between the United States and its regional partners.<em> <strong>(USCG)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HONOLULU\u2014The U.S. Coast Guard provided safe drinking water to Kiritimati Island in Kiribati, last July&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":372102,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[328,985,23793],"class_list":["post-372099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-coast-guard","tag-kiribati","tag-oliver-berry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}