Most of Baghdad has been without water for two days

[sabra]

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2007-08-02-iraq-thursday_N.htm?csp=34


Sisters Amira, 4, Wafa, 3, and Shaima, 2, cool themselves with a trickle of hose water in the Shiite enclave of Sadr City in eastern Baghdad, Thursday. Most of the Iraqi capital has been without water for two days, but the eastern part of the city has seen shortages for about the last week.
By Karim Kadim, AP


BAGHDAD (AP) — Much of the Iraqi capital was without running water Thursday and had been for at least 24 hours, compounding the urban misery in a war zone and the blistering heat at the height of the Baghdad summer.

Residents and city officials said large sections in the west of the capital had been virtually dry for six days because the already strained electricity grid can't provide sufficient juice to run water purification and pumping stations.

Jamil Hussein, 52, retired army officer who lives in northeast Baghdad, said his house has been without water for two weeks, except for two hours at night. He says the water that does flow smells and is unclean.

Two of his children have severe diarrhea that the doctor attributed to drinking what tap water was available, even after it was boiled.

"We'll have to continue drinking it because we don't have money to buy bottled water," he said.

[Subdivisions]

1. Our infrastructure isn't far behind. God take care of those precious

children. *Sigh*

[xchrom]

2. a perfect example of how we fucked it up.

[JuniperLea]

3. Those people should stop their...

belly-aching... Pardon the pun...

Don't they know they are so much better off now than they were six years ago?

And don't go getting all hateful on Bushie Boy! You just hate him, that's all this is about.

:sarcasm: (as if it were needed)



Will someone please slap me and wake me up from this nightmare???? Lord, please have mercy!!!

[many a good man]

8. You forgot to add ...

Those people should learn to provide for themselves and not expect the government to always bail them out!!!

We're not exporting democratic government, we're exporting Republican government!

When will it end? As I always say, "it has to get worse before it gets better." And it keeps getting worse and worse.

[MannyGoldstein]

4. It's Awesome What Bush/Cheney + Halliburton Can Accomplish!

Here's to public/private partnerships!

:toast:

(Oh, OK :sarcasm:)

[Supersedeas]

5. nothing to see here -- fill the airways with bottled/flavored water commercials

[helderheid]

6. rec 4

:cry:

[PA Democrat]

7. That is heartbreaking.

My husband was commenting the other day about the Republicans showing their purple thumbs at Bush's 2005 State of the Union address. Remember how PROUD they were of the "freedom" they were bringing to the Middle East?

[donkeyotay]

9. I hate what we have done to these people who did nothing to us, but hoped for a better life.

Over 600,000 dead.
Over 4 million refugees.
Chronic shortages of electricity.
Chronic shortages of water.
No security.
The level of care for the wounded citizen is probably dismal.
Economy in shambles.
Crime rampant.

And the latest RW talking point is that it will be a disaster if we leave. What do they call this?

[Mark Twain Girl]

10. War is terrorism. n/t

[indepat]

13. Terrorism using sophisticated weapons systems

[sarcasmo]

11. I notice USA today has covered this, but any coverage from NBC, CBS, ABC?

[paparush]

12. No one could have predicted that every Iraqi family was not a petro-brazillionaire...

capable of buying adequate food, clothing, and shelter to weather the American led Armageddon.

[Disturbed]

14. "God take care of those precious children."

God doesn't take care of anyone or anything on this planet. God never has & never will. A bit of study of History will point that out.

The Illegal Invasion & Occupation of Iraq for Oil is responsible for the devastation of Iraq.