The Libyan government restored functionality to a pipeline Sept. 8 used to deliver fresh water to the capital city of Tripoli, Libyan Water Resources Minister Alhadi Suleiman Hinshir said. The pipeline had been disabled since Sept. 3, after an attack in southern Libya on a pumping station connected to the country's Great Man-Made River by militants loyal to former Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi. The militants reportedly launched the attack to protest the detention of Anoud al-Senussi, the daughter of Abdullah al-Senussi, who served as Gadhafi's head of intelligence. The minister said it would still take several days for the pipeline to begin pumping at its pre-attack rate of 1.3 million cubic meters of water per day to Tripoli, with approximately 200,000 cubic meters of water per day currently flowing through the pipeline.