Royal New Zealand Air Force C-130H Hercules crews delivered a desalinization plant to the tiny Pacific island of Tuvalu to help alleviate a severe fresh water shortage on 10 October 2010. A Royal Australian Air Force C-17 crew in New Zealand for training carried the water treatment equipment in Auckland and flew it to Apia, Samoa, where it was broken down into smaller parts. The RNZAF C-130 crews then flew the sections to the short runway at the Tuvalu capital of Funafuti. The New Zealand Army set up the desalinization units and began testing the cleanliness of island’s water sources.
