Parts of Baghdad Without Water for 6 Days
Posted in H.L. News, Main Blog (All Posts) on August 3rd, 2007 7:48 am by HL
Seems like Bush is blowing up the infrastructure in Iraq, as well as right here in the US. After 4 years over there. They still have no electricity for part of the day almost every day, and they are without running water a great deal of the time. Yep sounds like the work of the disaster Monkey to me. Way to win the hearts and minds George. So how long do you suppose it’s going to be before that starts happening here? And you know it will, The privatization of water resources has already begun. If you want to control a population, take away their water. After a couple of days of going thirsty they will do pretty much anything you want. Lets not forget, global warming causes drought. Less rain means less water that the peasants can drink for free.
Water taps run dry in Baghdad
AP
Excerpt
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
August 4th, 2007 at 12:56 am
“But wait ’till we privatize the water. Things will get better and better and better. But if you don’t have water while we repair the lines, we’ll sell you Aquafina at 25 cents per ounce. Just think, you’ll get water at $4.00 per gallon; that’s cheaper than gas. Don’t you love freedom?”