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Baghdad's water still kakapoo 6 years after invasion |
2009-03-19 |
![]() Everybody complains about the water in Baghdad , and few are willing to risk drinking it from the tap. Six years after the U.S. invaded Iraq , 36 percent of Baghdad's drinking water is unsafe, according to the Iraqi Environment Ministry -- in a good month. In a bad month, it's 90 percent. Cholera broke out last summer, and officials fear another outbreak this year. "Even if the water is good today, no one would trust it," grocer Hussein Jawad said. He said that about 40 percent of his business was selling bottled drinking water, crates of which he's stacked 7 feet high on the sidewalk. "We've learned to be afraid." |
Posted by:GolfBravoUSMC |
#4 Call Procter&Gamble. They have a program for free or very low cost water purification ... stuff ... that they've been sharing in, I believe, India and Africa. It works in bucket sized lots or something, and is not competition for proper water purification plants. In the mean time, run the water through a silk fabric lined sieve, then boil it. India Sari silk is the best, if I recall correctly. |
Posted by: trailing wife 2009-03-19 19:22 |
#3 ...so what are yall gonna do when we aren't there too fix every little problem for you? They die, then get bleeding heart liberals to pay for it. |
Posted by: DarthVader 2009-03-19 13:54 |
#2 maybe it's time for them too learn too fix things like this themselves instaed of waiting for us too do it for them . they want us out, so what are yall gonna do when we aren't there too fix every little problem for you |
Posted by: rabid whitetail 2009-03-19 12:32 |
#1 36 percent of Baghdad's drinking water is unsafe, according to the Iraqi Environment Ministry Cleverly disguised in this article is the fact that in 2003, 72% of Baghdad's water was unsafe. One of the great accomplishments of the Coalition has been to bring clean water to millions of Iraqis who have never had it -ever. The improvements in clean water and sewage in the provinces are even greater. |
Posted by: Frozen Al 2009-03-19 11:55 |