Languid Tigris Waters Mask Iraq's Pollution Menace

[dArKeR]

By Matthew Green

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Plunging under the olive green surface of the Tigris, worshippers from an obscure sect emerge spurting water from their mouths.

A little way downstream, a torrent of sewage gushes into the river as it flows through the Iraqi capital Baghdad. A stench like rotten eggs wafts through the air.

Described in legend as flowing from a source near the Garden of Eden, the Tigris is now choking with modern-day pollution that researchers say puts millions of Iraqis at risk.

"Basically, it's an open sewer," said Anna Bachmann, an independent U.S. researcher who began sampling water for testing on Sunday. "Everything and anything is getting in the river."

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[madrchsod]

1. you know back in the

old days this pollution of the Tigris would have been a message from Allah/God/Yahweh about the wickedness of man....hmmm,maybe it is....

[donsu]

2. actually it's the wickedness of the criminal bushgang

that has caused Iraq's poisoning.

and the criminal bushgang that has and is overturning US regulations on pollution. give them time and our rivers will be the same. they are already close to it.