'We treated the river water with chlorine before giving it to them, but that was not enough,' said Armando, who runs a poultry cooperative in Mecupes, Mozambique. 'The water was just too dirty.' That was before the U.S. Government's Millennium Challenge Corporation and the Government of Mozambique arrived in early February 2011 to install a hand-powered water point, which provides clean water for residents for the first time. Mecupes, in a rural district of Nampula province, is one of 600 villages to receive access to clean water as part of MCC's five-year, $507 million compact with Mozambique.