Water Crisis in Baghdad

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"While most of Baghdadis do not have drinking water, the American troops are swimming in a fresh water swimming pool in Baghdad's Camp Victory."

http://www.uruknet.info/?p=13399&hd=0&size=1&l=x

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Attack Leaves Western Baghdad Short on Water

by Lourdes Garcia-Navarro 

Weekend Edition - Sunday, July 3, 2005 · The western half of Baghdad is suffering from an almost complete collapse of the water system. An insurgent attack on a pumping station 10 days ago caused severe shortages, and an explosion at another pumping station finished off the system.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4727944

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Stifling Baghdad despairs as water cut adds to misery
By Oliver Poole in Baghdad
(Filed: 25/06/2005)


Lubna Ali was resigned to the daily electricity shortages that cut off the lights, shut down the air conditioning and left her family sweltering in the summer heat.
She coped with her terror of the bombs, drive-by shootings and kidnappings by deciding, at the start of this year, to venture no further than her garden gate.

People gather to collect water at an emergency pump

But the final straw for the 42-year-old housewife from the middle-class New Baghdad district in the Iraqi capital came when a rebel attack on a water plant cut off supplies to two million people.

With the temperature above 50C, this brought Mrs Ali "the true knowledge of despair".

"I didn't think it could get worse - and then it did," she said, her kitchen filled with dirty plates and the lavatories unflushed. "The children are crying. All we want is to pour some water on our bodies.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/06/25/wirq25.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/06/25/ixworld.html

[CrispyQ]

1. Crimes against humanity

There is no other word for what we have done to the Iraqis.

This is a black mark on America that will not be vindicated.

[LiberallyInclined]

2. hey lubna- shut up and GUT IT OUT...

quit being a party-pooper- London got the 2012 olympics- try being happy for them, and stop yer whinin'.

(do i really need the sarcasm icon...?)

[kentuck]

3. "An insurgent attack on a pumping station 10 days ago ....?"

Why would they destroy their only water supply with temps of 110 degrees? Yeah, that's the ticket! It was the insurgents!

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4. This would seem

like bigger news... I didn't notice the water shortage story until I saw the photo in the first one and wanted more info.

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5. Seems like a good day to remember Baghdad.

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6. Are people dying from lack of water in Iraq?

If they were would it be in the news?

[frictionlessO]

7. yes and no... nom this.