Christ, this is so disgusting I have no words to describe my anger. From AP comes this:
BAGHDAD - 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 cannot provide sufficient power to run water purification and pumping stations. Baghdad routinely suffers from periodic water outages, but this one is described by residents as one of the most extended and widespread in recent memory. The problem highlights the larger difficulties in a capital beset by violence, crumbling infrastructure, rampant crime and too little electricity to keep cool in the sweltering weather more than four years after the U.S.-led invasion. Jamil Hussein, a 52-year-old 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. Adel al-Ardawi, a spokesman for the Baghdad city government, said that even with sufficient electricity "it would take 24 hours for the water mains to refill so we can begin pumping to residents. And even then the water won't be clean for a time. We just don't have the electricity or fuel for our generators to keep the system flowing." Noah Miller, spokesman for the U.S. reconstruction program in Baghdad, said that water treatment plants were working "as far as we know."
Who the hell is Noah kidding? Wotta load of bullshit. There is more to the story if you care to read it..I just can't put it up...its beyond reprehensible. There are millions of children, and elderly..and just ordinary human beings suffering in the heat..without a drop of water. Oh fuck yeah..they are so much better off after Saddam....
Tags: Baghdad, Federal Fuckwits at the Helm, Water everywhere but none to drink, Life after Saddam
