Iraq wastes 50 percent of water: UNICEF

[Barrett808]

Fifty percent of water resources are wasted in Iraq, where six million people have no access to clean water, the United Nations said on Monday, the eve of World Water Day.

"Iraq faces difficulties in meeting the target of 91 percent of households using a safe drinking water supply by 2015," due to decades of conflict, sanctions and neglect, the UNICEF children's fund said in a statement.

"Iraq's average water production level per person, at 327 litres (86 gallons)/capita/day, is considered high by international standards but around 50 percent of the water produced is lost to seepage, leakage and wastage due to system inefficiencies," it said. ...

Iraq wastes 50 percent of water: UNICEF

[madrchsod]

1. been that way since the start of the first gulf war

remember we have been at war with the iraqi people since the first gulf war.

[FiveGoodMen]

2. When we destroyed their water treatment plants deliberately, IIRC

[Nihil]

3. Just one more war-crime that has gone unpunished for years.

Still, everything has changed now since we decided to "move on" ... hasn't it?