The Glass Really Is Half-Empty
Posted on | February 18, 2008
Five years after our invasion and conquest of Iraq, millions in Baghdad are without running water. The punchline: it’s due to electrical blackouts.
Power failures and maintenance have disrupted running water supplies to almost half of the capital, Baghdad, home to nearly 6 million people.
A Baghdad Municipality source said the project supplying drinking water to Rasafa, the eastern half of Baghdad, was temporarily idle.
The source, refusing to be named, said running water supplies may not resume for a few days.
He attributed the stoppage, which has caused large-scale popular resentment, to blackouts which have recently even affected essential utilities like water.
All that talk of rebuilding infrastructure was lies, lies told to sell us their goddamned war.
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