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However, as pollution levels go up, fish die and waste is dumped there, that may soon change.</strong></p> <p>One of the problems that the oft-troubled northern city of Mosul does not have is a water supply. The Tigris River passes through the city, the capital of the state of Ninawa, dividing it into two coasts. And as it passes through, the river’s waters are used by a wide variety of businesses and private households on its banks.</p> <p>The local sewage department estimates that there are 172 sources of sewage pouring about half a million cubic meters of waste water into the river daily, including waste water from private households and factories, some of which are state-owned.</p> <p>On the banks of the Tigris, there are a number of construction sites, industrial areas and one large medical complex. Various types of liquids and solids find their way into the river, some of them dangerous, many of them untreated and polluting. In the past, reports have suggested that medical waste was being thrown directly into the river – even though the local health department denies this.</p> </blockquote></div> <p> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130125170711/http://gorillasguides.com/2012/02/24/niqash-three-million-drink-from-mosuls-poisoned-river/#more-14025" class="more-link">» أقرأ التفاصيل .. | Read the rest of this entry »</a></p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-12821"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130125170711/http://gorillasguides.com/2011/03/22/%d8%b5%d9%86%d8%af%d9%88%d9%82-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%a7%d9%85%d9%85-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%85%d8%aa%d8%ad%d8%af%d8%a9-%d9%84%d9%84%d8%b7%d9%81%d9%88%d9%84%d8%a9-%d9%86%d8%b5%d9%81-%d9%83%d9%85%d9%8a%d8%a7%d8%aa/#respond" title="Comment on صندوق الامم المتحدة للطفولة: نصف كميات المياه في العراق تضيع هدرا في حين لا يتمكن ستة ملايين نسمة من الحصول على مياه الشفة">No Comments</a></span> Posted on March 22nd, 2011 by Mohammed Ibn Laith</div> <h3><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130125170711/http://gorillasguides.com/2011/03/22/%d8%b5%d9%86%d8%af%d9%88%d9%82-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%a7%d9%85%d9%85-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%85%d8%aa%d8%ad%d8%af%d8%a9-%d9%84%d9%84%d8%b7%d9%81%d9%88%d9%84%d8%a9-%d9%86%d8%b5%d9%81-%d9%83%d9%85%d9%8a%d8%a7%d8%aa/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to صندوق الامم المتحدة للطفولة: نصف كميات المياه في العراق تضيع هدرا في حين لا يتمكن ستة ملايين نسمة من الحصول على مياه الشفة">صندوق الامم المتحدة للطفولة: نصف كميات المياه في العراق تضيع هدرا في حين لا يتمكن ستة ملايين نسمة من الحصول على مياه الشفة</a></h3> <p class="postmetadata">Category: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130125170711/http://gorillasguides.com/category/children/" title="View all posts in Children" rel="category tag">Children</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130125170711/http://gorillasguides.com/category/cholera/" title="View all posts in Cholera" rel="category tag">Cholera</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130125170711/http://gorillasguides.com/category/health-crisis-iraq/" title="View all posts in Health" rel="category tag">Health</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130125170711/http://gorillasguides.com/category/iraq/" title="View all posts in News" rel="category tag">News</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130125170711/http://gorillasguides.com/category/photos/" title="View all posts in Photos" rel="category tag">Photos</a>, Tags: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130125170711/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/photos/" rel="tag">Photos</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130125170711/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/water-borne-disease/" rel="tag">Water Borne Disease</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130125170711/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/water-contamination/" rel="tag">Water Contamination</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130125170711/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/water-crisis/" rel="tag">Water Crisis</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130125170711/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/water-crisis-iraq/" rel="tag">Water Crisis (Iraq)</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130125170711/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/water-resources/" rel="tag">water resources</a></p> <div class="entry" dir="rtl" align="right"> <div dir="rtl" align="right"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130125170711/http://www.flickr.com/photos/gorillasguides/5551397098/" title="20110322_UNICEF_more_than_six_million_Irakis_have_no_access_to_safe_drinking_water by Gorillas Guides, on Flickr" class="external" target="_blank"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20130125170711im_/http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5228/5551397098_4df4c3e877_o.jpg" width="350" height="250" alt="20110322_UNICEF_more_than_six_million_Irakis_have_no_access_to_safe_drinking_water"/></a> <p>كشفت وكالة تابعة للأمم المتحدة في تقرير لها، أن نصف كميات الماء في العراق تضيع هدرا، في حين لا يتمكن ستة ملايين نسمة من الحصول على مياه صالحة للشرب. <br/>وأشار صندوق الأمم المتحدة للطفولة "اليونسيف" بمناسبة اليوم العالمي للمياه إلى احتمال حصول جفاف في نهري دجلة والفرات في حلول عام 2040 نظرا للتغييرات المناخية وانخفاض كميات المياه والاستخدام المكثف لأغراض الصناعة والاستهلاك المنزلي. <br/>وأضاف أن العراق يواجه صعوبات في التوصل إلى تزويد 91 في المائة من المنازل بمياه الشرب بحلول عام 2015، لافتا إلى أن نصف كميات المياه تضيع هدرا بسبب تقادم البنى التحتية والتسريب وسوء التوزيع. <br/>وأوضح التقرير أن واحدا من أصل خمسة عراقيين لا يمكنه الحصول على مياه الشرب وخصوصا في المناطق الريفية، وأن نصف مليون طفل يستخدمون مياه الأنهر أو الجداول، في حين يستخدم حوالى 200 ألف غيرهم آبارا مكشوفة أو صهاريج المياه، ما يؤدي إلى تفشي الأمراض الناجمة عن تلوث المياه. <br/>وأكدت الأمم المتحدة أن ما لا يقل عن 200 ألف طن من مجاري الصرف الصحي تصب يوميا في نهر دجلة ما يهدد مصادر المياه غير المحمية ونظام توزيع المياه بأكمله.</p> </div> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-11711"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130125170711/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/10/26/67-%d9%85%d9%86-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%85%d9%8a%d8%a7%d9%87-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%85%d8%b9%d8%a8%d8%a3%d8%a9-%d9%81%d9%8a-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%85%d8%b9%d8%a7%d9%85%d9%84-%d9%85%d8%ae%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%81%d8%a9-%d9%84/#respond" title="Comment on 67% من المياه المعبأة في المعامل مخالفة للشروط">No Comments</a></span> Posted on October 26th, 2010 by Ali Ibn Hussayn</div> <h3><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130125170711/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/10/26/67-%d9%85%d9%86-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%85%d9%8a%d8%a7%d9%87-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%85%d8%b9%d8%a8%d8%a3%d8%a9-%d9%81%d9%8a-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%85%d8%b9%d8%a7%d9%85%d9%84-%d9%85%d8%ae%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%81%d8%a9-%d9%84/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to 67% من المياه المعبأة في المعامل مخالفة للشروط">67% من المياه المعبأة في المعامل مخالفة للشروط</a></h3> <p class="postmetadata">Category: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130125170711/http://gorillasguides.com/category/health-crisis-iraq/" title="View all posts in Health" rel="category tag">Health</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130125170711/http://gorillasguides.com/category/iraq/" title="View all posts in News" rel="category tag">News</a>, Tags: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130125170711/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/beverages-contaminated/" rel="tag">Beverages - contaminated</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130125170711/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/water-contamination/" rel="tag">Water Contamination</a></p> <div class="entry" dir="rtl" align="right"> <div dir="rtl" align="right"> <p>بغداد: كشف رئيس الجهاز المركزي للتقييس والسيطرة النوعية في وزارة التخطيط،  ، إن 67% من المعامل العراقية التي تنتج المياه المعبأة هي مخالفة للشروط والضوابط.وأوضح سعد عبد الوهاب عبد القادر ان "67% من </p> <p>المعامل المنتجة للمياه المعبأة في العراق هي مخالفة للشروط والضوابط"، مضيفا ان "المياه المعبأة التي كانت تستورد من خارج العراق كانت نسبة المخالفة فيها اقل بكثير من المخالفات الموجودة في المعامل العراقية".وتابع ان "نسبة المخالفات في المياه التي كانت تستورد من الخارج كانت تتراوح بين 5 – 7% وهذا اقل بكثير من المعامل المنتجة للمياه في العراق”.</p> </p></div> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-11654"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130125170711/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/10/21/death-and-body-bags/#comments" title="Comment on Death and body bags">1 Comment</a></span> Posted on October 21st, 2010 by Umm Fatima</div> <h3><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130125170711/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/10/21/death-and-body-bags/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Death and body bags">Death and body bags</a></h3> <p class="postmetadata">Category: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130125170711/http://gorillasguides.com/category/english-articles/" title="View all posts in English Language Articles" 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<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130125170711/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/sewage/" rel="tag">sewage</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130125170711/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/statistics/" rel="tag">statistics</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130125170711/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/violence/" rel="tag">violence</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130125170711/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/water/" rel="tag">Water</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130125170711/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/water-contamination/" rel="tag">Water Contamination</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130125170711/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/who/" rel="tag">WHO</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130125170711/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/world-health-organisation/" rel="tag">World Health Organisation</a></p> <div class="entry" dir="rtl" align="right"> <p>A new US estimate of the number of Iraqis killed seven years after the US-led invasion serves as a reminder that civilians are dying on a daily basis in Iraq, writes <b>Salah Hemeid</b></p> <p>Former US secretary of state Madeleine Albright’s famous quotation apparently justifying the deaths of half a million Iraqi children as a result of the Washington- backed and UN-imposed sanctions against Iraq in the 1990s has often been remembered as a cold-blooded assertion of US policy objectives.</p> <div style="border-right: black 1px solid; padding-right: 5px; border-top: black 1px solid; padding-left: 5px; float: right; padding-bottom: 5px; margin: 5px 0px 5px 15px; border-left: black 1px solid; width: 289px; padding-top: 5px; border-bottom: black 1px solid"> <p><img style="display: block; float: none; margin: 5px auto" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20130125170711im_/http://gorillasguides.com/wp-content//20061018_boy_holding_the_feet_of_his_dead_father_hospital_morgue_baquba_october_18_2006.jpg"/></p> <p>Boy Holding The Feet Of His Father Baquba Hospital Morgue October 18 2006. </p> </p></div> <p>The aphorism came to mind again last week when US media reported that the United States had finally released its first official compilation of data on Iraqi casualties, more than seven years after its invasion of the country.</p> <p>The report, posted on the US Central Command website in July, drew little notice until last Thursday, when media outlets published details showing that 63,185 civilians and 13,754 members of the Iraqi security forces had been killed from early 2004 to August 2008.</p> <p>It is not clear why the figures did not include casualties from the immediate aftermath of the US-led invasion in 2003, or from the period after August 2008. It is not clear either how the data were compiled and using what methodology.</p> <p>The figures seem to represent a "policy engineered" anti-climax as the Obama administration, facing a mid- term election challenge, tries to bring an end to America’s misadventure in Iraq.</p> <p>The number of Iraqis killed during the US-led invasion and its aftermath has long been hotly debated, estimates ranging from fewer than 100,000 to more than a million.</p> <p>Knowing how these latest US figures were arrived at would speak volumes about how the United States is faring as it prepares to exit from Iraq.</p> <p>The casualty figures released by Washington are lower than those from Iraqi government sources. Last year, the Iraqi Ministry of Human Rights reported that 85,694 Iraqis, including military and police personnel, had been killed from the beginning of 2004 through to October 2008.</p> <p>In January 2008, the World Health Organisation (WHO) estimated that 151,000 deaths had taken place in the country due to the violence, with a 95 per cent confidence estimate of between 104,000 and 223,000 from March 2003 through to June 2006. The figures were based on the results of an Iraq family health survey published in the <i>New England Journal of Medicine</i>, a respected US journal. </p> <p>Another estimate from the Iraq Body Count, a non- governmental organisation based in Britain that uses media accounts, has put the number of civilian dead in Iraq at 47,668 during the same period as the WHO study. The group’s latest figures for civilian deaths from violence in the country until September 19 2010 stood at between 98,252 and 107,235.</p> <p>A 2006 survey in <i>The Lancet</i>, a British medical journal, estimated that more than 600,000 Iraqis had died as a result of the war, a figure more than 10 times higher than other estimates at the time. </p> <p>Iraq has not officially reacted to any of the studies, though many Iraqis have rejected the new US figures on the number of civilian deaths in the conflict, saying that they are well below the actual numbers who have died. </p> <p>The numbers are misleading, critics say, because they are not based on a well- defined methodology dealing with all violence-related deaths, including assassinations and in operations conducted by the US military.</p> <p>Estimates of casualty figures during the US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq have been controversial because of the high political stakes involved and the possibility of manipulation aimed at swaying public opinion. The recent report was prompted by a Freedom of Information Act request from the National Security Archive at George Washington University. </p> <p>Scepticism has arisen about these latest figures not only because of possible discrepancies and the mysterious standards used to establish the magnitude of the casualties, but also because the parties involved have been reluctant to tell the truth about this human tragedy.</p> <p>A fundamental question is why the US military, which bears primary responsibility for the conflict, failed to address the issue start from the start and why it did not keep accurate records on the victims of the invasion and occupation.</p> <p>The military’s apparent incapacity to provide statistics about the causalities of US air bombardments and other related operations is a real and pressing concern.</p> <p>Another question of concern is why the US media, omnipresent in Iraq since the 2003 invasion, has not capitalised on its high standards of professionalism to gather accurate data about the human tragedy in Iraq.</p> <p>The Associated Press kept a record for the period from 28 April 2005 to 30 September 2010 listing some 49,416 deaths.</p> <p>Yet, even more disturbing than these US failures has been the failure by successive Iraqi governments to establish an efficient process of data collection to register the deaths of Iraqi citizens and to compensate their families.</p> <p>Failure to collect data and dodgy statistics are not the only problems. There is also the problem of how to count deaths that are directly related to the war and occupation, separating them from deaths as a result of violence in the country.</p> <p>Absent from the debate is any explanation of the humanitarian crisis that has struck Iraq since the 2003 US-led invasion, including increasing poverty, unemployment, the deterioration of health services and the destruction of the country’s ecological system.</p> <p>Statistics such as those released by the US military have also largely ignored Iraqi fatalities caused by a lack of clean drinking water and a breakdown in utilities.</p> <p>Humanitarian agencies like the International Committee of the Red Cross have warned that the country’s healthcare facilities face grave shortages of staff and supplies, with the water, sewage and electricity infrastructure being in critical condition.</p> <p>Rates of cancer, leukemia and brain tumours, widely believed to have been caused by US weaponry, have been on the rise, some research suggesting that they rival those reported among survivors of the nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.</p> <p>The US military’s report on the death toll in Iraq comes at a time when US President Barack Obama has reached his lowest ratings in US opinion polls ahead of crucial mid-term elections next month.</p> <p>The release of the statistics while Obama embarks on a campaign to drum up support for Democratic Party candidates cannot be a coincidence.</p> <p>By publishing a limited number of casualties in Iraq, the Obama administration may be hoping that it can go ahead with its policy of "turning the page" in Iraq, ending the US military presence in the country by the end of next year.</p> <p>Exiting from Iraq would benefit the Democratic Party, whose president vowed to end the legacy of the Republican Party and its president in Iraq. </p> <p>If all goes to plan, Iraq will no longer be front-page news in America, as US soldiers pack up to leave in order to help Democrats achieve some sort of hoped-for victory in next month’s elections.</p> <p>However, the very day this article was sent to print, a spate of bomb attacks across Iraq killed and wounded many people, serving as proof that the threat of death remains a part of daily life in the country.</p> <p>If Albright’s idea that the price paid by Iraqi civilians for US policy "is worth it" can serve as any sort of reminder in this sad chapter of Iraq’s history, then it should be that the US-led invasion has turned into a humanitarian tragedy, as well as an American national predicament.</p> <p><strong>Source:</strong> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130125170711/http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2010/1020/re3.htm" class="external" target="_blank">Al-Ahram Weekly | Region | Death and body bags</a></p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-11240"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a 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Children</a></p> <div class="entry" dir="rtl" align="right"> <p>Villages and rural areas have suffered a lot, the agriculture is collapsing or has collapsed in many places and  many people have moved to the cities to try to find work. Mostly there is no work to be found and what work they find is badly paid day labourer work. So they live in a squalid squatter camps and try to survive. </p> <p>For those who stay life is almost as tough. The rural areas have been neglected for a very long time and lack basic infrastructure and facilities the most desperate need is for clean drinkable water. Even for those villages on riverbanks or with wells or streams the water situation is desperate. The water is untreated and so it is often contaminated with fertiliser or faecal organisms. But an added hardship is that the women and the children have to go to the ponds and the stream to fetch the water and then carry it back. I recently visited my mother who lives in a small village in a quite difficult to travel to part of Diwnaiyah. She decided this year that she was too frail to make the journey to the city where I live with my husband and children for a holiday. So her holiday this year is that my sisters and I have travelled to her and fixed things in the house and in her field where she grows her food.</p> <p>I had forgotten how very very hard work it is to fetch and carry water.</p> <div style="clear: both">Umm Fatima </div> <div style="padding-right: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-bottom: 5px; margin: 5px 0px 5px 15px; width: 460px; padding-top: 5px"> <div class="container"> <div class="shadow"> <div class="frame"> <p>In this first photograph the women and children set off to fetch their water. If you look at the sky and their shadows you can see that they have left it quite late. I can tell you from experience that it is best to get this job as early as possible before the heat of the sun make the job even harder than it already is. </p> <p><a title="water_fetching_diwaniyah_village_photo_essay_01 by Gorillas Guides, on Flickr" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130125170711/http://www.flickr.com/photos/27086036@N02/4759233943/" class="external" target="_blank"><img style="display: block; float: none; margin: 0px auto 5px" height="337" alt="water_fetching_diwaniyah_village_photo_essay_01" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20130125170711im_/http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4097/4759233943_db242d9b88_o.jpg" width="450"/></a></p> </p></div> <p> <!-- end frame --></div> </p></div> </p></div> <div style="clear: both"> </div> <div style="padding-right: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-bottom: 5px; margin: 5px 0px 5px 15px; width: 460px; padding-top: 5px"> <div class="container"> <div class="shadow"> <div class="frame"> <p>The second photograph shows how you collect the water from a pond or a stream: </p> <p>You put all of your containers on the bank then you get into the water and fill them one by one. </p> <p><a title="water_fetching_diwaniyah_village_photo_essay_02 by Gorillas Guides, on Flickr" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130125170711/http://www.flickr.com/photos/27086036@N02/4759233371/" class="external" target="_blank"><img style="display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto" height="337" alt="water_fetching_diwaniyah_village_photo_essay_02" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20130125170711im_/http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4139/4759233371_f49941cff2_o.jpg" width="450"/></a></p> </p></div> <p> <!-- end frame --></div> </p></div> </p></div> <div style="clear: both"> </div> <div style="padding-right: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-bottom: 5px; margin: 5px 0px 5px 15px; width: 460px; padding-top: 5px"> <div class="container"> <div class="shadow"> <div class="frame"> <p>The third photograph does not really give you a clear idea of how <em>heavy</em> water is. Even a small pot like this is quite heavy. </p> <p>If you use a small pot you have to carry many small pots to the stream and then go back many times this makes you very tired and takes a long time. Or you can use or one or two big ones to have enough water for the day but carrying a big pot is very very hard work!  </p> <p><a title="water_fetching_diwaniyah_village_photo_essay_03 by Gorillas Guides, on Flickr" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130125170711/http://www.flickr.com/photos/27086036@N02/4759867838/" class="external" target="_blank"><img style="display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto" height="337" alt="water_fetching_diwaniyah_village_photo_essay_03" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20130125170711im_/http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4114/4759867838_6e6fbfe74f_o.jpg" width="450"/></a></p> </p></div> <p> <!-- end frame --></div> </p></div> </p></div> <div style="clear: both"></div> <p>I want to finish by saying a big "thank you!" to Erdla for fixing my English and getting the photos to look right.</p> <p>Umm Fatima</p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-11237"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130125170711/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/07/04/baghdads-trash-piles-up/#respond" title="Comment on Baghdad’s Trash Piles Up">No Comments</a></span> Posted on July 4th, 2010 by Um Thalit</div> <h3><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130125170711/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/07/04/baghdads-trash-piles-up/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Baghdad’s Trash Piles Up">Baghdad’s Trash Piles Up</a></h3> <p class="postmetadata">Category: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130125170711/http://gorillasguides.com/category/english-articles/" title="View all posts in English Language Articles" rel="category tag">English Language Articles</a>, Tags: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130125170711/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/abdul-sahib/" rel="tag">Abdul Sahib</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130125170711/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/alleyways/" rel="tag">alleyways</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130125170711/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/american-walls/" rel="tag">American walls</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130125170711/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/blast-walls/" rel="tag">blast walls</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130125170711/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/cholera/" rel="tag">Cholera</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130125170711/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/civic-improvement/" rel="tag">civic improvement</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130125170711/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/cleanliness/" rel="tag">cleanliness</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130125170711/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/construction-debris/" rel="tag">construction debris</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130125170711/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/degradable-plastics/" rel="tag">degradable plastics</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130125170711/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/diarrhoea/" rel="tag">diarrhoea</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130125170711/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/dumps/" rel="tag">Dumps</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130125170711/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/east-baghdad/" rel="tag">east Baghdad</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130125170711/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/environment/" rel="tag">environment</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130125170711/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/food/" rel="tag">food</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130125170711/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/food-contamination/" rel="tag">Food - 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Yet even those involved in the civic improvement plans admit the government faces a formidable problem made worse by years of neglect.</p> <p>“Baghdad is not like other places, and the issues are complex. The municipality is not doing its job properly, but at the same time we lack laws that prohibit the public from littering and polluting. This is why we are unable to provide a healthy environment,” said Qasim Dawood, a member of parliament’s health and environment committee.</p> <p>Dawood said the trash piling up in Baghdad’s alleyways, open spaces and bazaars ranges from common household refuse to construction debris, non-degradable plastics and rotting organic waste.</p> <p>As the capital has swelled to nearly seven million residents, an influx of poor migrants and a housing shortage have forced an increasing number of Iraqis to live in slums and squatter settlements in abandoned building and parks. The distance between these ad hoc living spaces and garbage dumps is shrinking, said Dawood.</p> <p>The problem of what the government refers to as “solid waste management” also affects more affluent residential neighbourhoods and commercial districts. In some areas, trash heaps have blocked off entire roads and residents throughout the city complain of foul odours, insects and rodents. Local media has reported a rise in packs of scavenging dogs, putting the number in Baghdad at over one million.</p> <p>“Unchecked garbage is destroying the quality of life in Baghdad. Dumps are everywhere and sometimes near water pipes and rivers. This creates all kinds of bad fungi that lead to food poisoning and diarrhoea, and can bring on diseases such as typhoid and cholera,” said Dawood.</p> <p>Waste management has been a serious problem in Baghdad since the United States-led invasion in 2003. In the subsequent years of sectarian violence, government agencies were abandoned and looted, and garbage collectors were routinely kidnapped or killed. Blast walls, barbed wire and barricaded checkpoints have choked off access to many parts of the city, making regular clean-up sweeps impossible.</p> <p>“Our neighbourhood is a big dump. During the day, the awful smell is really hard to stand. The smell gets worse with the heat in summer. At night it is very annoying to hear the dogs and their howling. We have gone to the municipality more than once to ask them to clean the area, but it’s been no good,” said Ibtesam Aziz, 36, resident of the poor Shaab neighbourhood of east Baghdad.</p> <p>The US has invested some 33 million dollars to improve Baghdad’s waste management system, an American official told IWPR. This includes the construction of landfills and the donation of removal equipment. Still, US and municipal officials admit that garbage removal has been a low priority for a city with a host of other problems such as limited clean water and electricity and extremist violence.</p> <p>In some areas, residents pay for their garbage to be picked up in the streets, but many complain that the service is not dependable. Impoverished areas have no service and some districts in the capital have taken on clean-up efforts themselves.</p> <p>"We have a huge area, too much garbage, and too few vehicle and workers. We hired a number of trucks from private sector. All together now we have 100, which is one-third of the total number we need," said Azhar Abdul Sahib, the head of media department in Mansour suburb of Baghdad.</p> <p>Sahib continued that the vehicles employed were often small trucks or even hand-drawn carts, and temporary labour costs are unsustainable at 10,000 to 15,000 dinar (8.5 to 12 dollars) for each worker per day.</p> <p>Parliament in 2009 passed a law requiring citizens to put garbage in plastic bags to prevent disease. The Baghdad city government distributed the bags to most houses and shops in the city, but the move proved ineffective.</p> <p>In 2007, a programme to place large yellow containers on each block for residential waste was also ignored, with most of the containers being stolen, according to residents.</p> <p>"Having garbage everywhere in the city is just uncivilised. It affects people’s health as well as the environment. We need to educate people about how cleanliness is good for our health, but no group or agency is doing this, even local NGOs because we lack money and support," said Salama Dhaeia Naeif, the head of Love and Peace Messengers organisation in Baghdad.</p> <p>As the garbage problem continues to grow, residents and officials are increasingly pointing fingers at each other.</p> <p>“The Baghdad municipality makes great efforts to clean the city, but these efforts are mostly wasted by the citizens who throw trash everywhere, anytime. For example, a man puts trash outside his house in an open box four or five times each day. So when a cat or dog passes by, the garbage is scattered everywhere. Now, take into account the millions of citizens in Baghdad and you can imagine what the city is like,” said Sabah Sami, head Baghdad municipality’s media department.</p> <p>Sami claims Baghdad’s 14 waste collection branches and 314 vehicles should be enough to collect the city’s trash, but that “citizens throw trash everywhere".</p> <p>New York, a city of some eight million people, has 5,700 waste removal vehicles, according to the New York Sanitation department website.</p> <p>Despite the public frustration, city officials are confident that the garbage problem can be solved.</p> <p>Municipality spokesman Hakeem Abdul Zahra said the city plans to work with Baghdad’s Operation Command, a body in charge of securing the capital, to clear up refuse piling up around blast walls. The municipality also intends to sign contract with companies from Turkey and the United Arab Emirates to remove and compress garbage in east Baghdad. The firms will also provide dumps for locals, as well as clean the streets and water plants.</p> <p>Zahra said additional deals will be settled by the end of the year with Austrian and Turkish firms that will be in charge of garbage processing. He said the new projects would enable Baghdad to remove 500 tonnes of garbage each day.</p> <p>The city of New York removes roughly 25,000 tonnes of garbage from homes and businesses per day.</p> <p>Zahra refused to disclose the names of any foreign firms or the financial arrangements because the deals were still in negotiation.</p> <p>Sami said the municipality is launching a media campaign to educate citizens on the health risks of garbage and how they should dispose of it.</p> <p>City officials hope the initiative will raise awareness and possibly prompt anti-litter laws and ordinances.</p> <p>Although officials have spoken at great length about their determination to clean up the city, exact financial figures for the massive undertaking remain elusive. Sami said figures for the projects could not be given because waste management was included in a larger city improvement budget that included other programmes.</p> <p>“I can’t even give an estimate on the total cost for garbage collection in Baghdad, but I can say it is the lowest compared to neighbouring countries,” said Zahra.</p> <p>“We really don’t spend lot of money on garbage compared to other countries, even though we are doing a great job in this field. But I don’t have an exact figure.”</p> <p>Residents concerned about the growing rubbish problem say it is a comparatively recent one, and hope the appearance of the city can be restored.</p> <p>"My wish is to see Baghdad clean again as in the 1980s and even 1990s. Garbage collectors and street cleaners worked day and night. They knocked on our door to collect it and there big dumps in every neighbourhood where people could put garbage in instead of throwing it in street like now," said Ahmed Ismaeil, 37, a medical technician at a hospital in Baghdad.</p> <p>“It was one of the most beautiful cities in the world.”</p> <p><strong>Zaineb Naji and Dawood Salman are IWPR-trained journalists in Baghdad. IWPR Iraq senior local editor Abeer Mohammed and IWPR Iraq editor Charles McDermid contributed to this story from Baghdad.</strong></p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130125170711/http://www.iwpr.net/report-news/baghdad%E2%80%99s-trash-piles" class="external" target="_blank">Baghdad’s Trash Piles Up – IWPR Institute for War & Peace Reporting</a></p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-11138"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130125170711/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/06/26/%d8%a7%d8%ba%d9%84%d8%a7%d9%82-79-%d9%85%d8%b9%d9%85%d9%84%d8%a7%d9%8b-%d9%84%d8%a7%d9%86%d8%aa%d8%a7%d8%ac-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%85%d9%8a%d8%a7%d9%87-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%85%d8%b9%d8%af%d9%86%d9%8a%d8%a9-%d8%a8/#respond" title="Comment on اغلاق 79 معملاً لانتاج المياه المعدنية بسبب الغش">No Comments</a></span> Posted on June 26th, 2010 by Hussein Al-Bayati</div> <h3><a 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Anbar</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130125170711/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/wheat/" rel="tag">wheat</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130125170711/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/wheat-barley/" rel="tag">wheat barley</a></p> <div class="entry" dir="rtl" align="right"> <div dir="rtl" align="right"> <blockquote> <p>الرمادي (العراق) (رويترز) – ينحي عبد الله حسن باللائمة في فساد محاصيله على نقص المياه المزمن ولا يثق كثيرا في أن الحكومة الجديدة ستستطيع احياء قطاع الزراعة بالعراق الذي دمرته الحرب ويعاني من قلة الاستثمارات.</p> <p>عبد الله (50 عاما) اب لخمسة ابناء ويعيش بالفلوجة في محافظة الانبار بغرب العراق وقد اضطر للتخلي عن زرع أفدنته الخمسين والحصول على عمل بقطاع البناء بعد أن قضت سنوات الجفاف على محاصيله من القمح والشعير والطماطم ( البندورة) والخيار والبطيخ.</p> <p>ولا يحدوه امل كبير في العودة الى الزراعة التي كانت مصدر دخله الاساسي على مدى 35 عاما وينوي بيع جزء من أرضه مع استمرار تراجع مستويات المياه في الانهار والخزانات مما يرفع تركيز الملوثات في المياه.</p> <p>وقال "يسوء وضع التربة يوما بعد يوم لان مستوى الملوحة يزيد والخصوبة تقل. هذا مثل السرطان الذي يصيب جسم الانسان."</p> <p> <a title="drought_anbar" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130125170711/http://www.flickr.com/photos/27086036@N02/4675228808/" class="external" target="_blank"><img alt="drought_anbar" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20130125170711im_/http://static.flickr.com/4047/4675228808_c81b6a0ab2.jpg" border="0"/></a> <p>وبعد الاضرار التي سببتها عقود من الحرب والعقوبات يعاني العراق من نقص حاد في المياه يتوقع أن يتفاقم مع نمو سكانه الذين يبلغ عددهم نحو 30 مليونا.</p> <p>وتغلب على العراق مساحات من الصحراء القاحلة لكن به أحد اكثر أنظمة الري اتساعا في العالم غير أن سنوات الحرب ونقص الاستثمارات والعقوبات حالت دون استغلاله القليل الذي تبقى من المياه.</p> <p>ويوفر نهرا دجلة والفرات وهما النهران الرئيسيان بالعراق القليل من الغوث للسهول الجافة لان السدود الكهرومائية في تركيا وايران وسوريا المجاورة قللت من تدفق المياه.</p> <p>والاستثمار في البنية التحتية المتهالكة مثل مضخات المياه ضروري لقطاعات رئيسية كالزراعة والنفط فضلا عن جهود اعادة الاعمار الاوسع نطاقا بعد سبع سنوات من الغزو الذي قادته الولايات المتحدة وأطاح بالرئيس صدام حسين.</p> <p>وكانت محافظة الانبار وهي منطقة صحراوية شاسعة من المناطق التي تضررت بشكل خاص. وأصبحت مساحات كبيرة من الاراضي التي كانت صالحة للزراعة على نهر الفرات غير مستخدمة لعدم كفاية طرق ضخ المياه النظيفة في التربة.</p> <p>وتقول الامم المتحدة انه يتم صرف نحو 83 في المئة من مياه الصرف الصحي دون معالجة في المجاري المائية فيما تقدر الحكومة أن 24 بالمئة من العراقيين لا يحصلون على مياه امنة.</p> <p>وتعمل الحكومة مع خبراء أمريكيين محاولة انشاء محطات للمعالجة وبحيرات صناعية لتنقية المياه الملوثة.</p> <p>وأنفق فريق اعادة اعمار محافظة في الانبار -وهي وحدة أنشأتها الولايات المتحدة للمساعدة في اعادة بناء العراق- اكثر من 100 مليون دولار لبناء وصيانة منشآت المعالجة ويتوقع أن تتوفر المياه النظيفة لنحو 97 بالمئة من السكان بحلول نهاية العام.</p> <p>ويعيش نحو 90 بالمئة من سكان الانبار البالغ عددهم 1.4 مليون نسمة على امتداد نهر الفرات حيث انخفضت مستويات المياه انخفاضا حادا. وكان متوسط معدل التدفق بالنهر الف متر مكعب في الثانية قبل اقامة سدود وتباطؤ معدل التدفق فيه الى 290 مترا مكعبا في الثانية في أغسطس اب الماضي وهو أدنى مستوياته منذ ستة أعوام.</p> <p>ويقول مسؤولون عراقيون ان منشات الصرف الصحي غير كافية ويشيرون الى أن تكلفة انشاء نظام للصرف الصحي في بلدة الرمادي تبلغ 400 مليون دولار على الاقل.</p> <p>وتساءل ابراهيم مدلول مدير ماء الانبار "أين سنجد المستثمرين الذين سيأتون ويستثمرون 400 مليون دولار في مشروع كهذا.."</p> <p>وأضاف أنه يتطلع الى مساندة الحكومة المركزية لدعم مشاريع بهذا الحجم.</p> <p>وقد يطول الانتظار.. فالعراق يعيش حالة من التشكك السياسي منذ انتخابات السابع من مارس اذار التي لم تسفر عن فائز واضح.</p> <p>وقد يستغرق تشكيل حكومة جديدة عدة اشهر وسيعني هذا تأجيل المشاريع الجديدة التي تحتاج الى موافقة الحكومة.</p> <p>ومن المتوقع أن تركز الحكومة الجديدة على تحسين الخدمات الاساسية بما في ذلك التفاوض على مزيد من امدادت المياه من الجيران والتركيز على ترشيد استهلاك المياه القليلة التي لدى العراق.</p> <p>ويهدد نقص المياه تطوير حقول النفط في العراق الذي يتمتع بثالث اكبر احتياطي في العالم والذي عقد في العام الماضي صفقات يمكن أن تدفعه الى مصاف كبريات الدول المنتجة.</p> <p>فيجب ضخ كميات كبيرة من المياه تحت الارض للحفاظ على الضغط عند استخراج النفط. ويحتاج انتاج برميل واحد من النفط الى نحو 1.6 برميل من المياه.</p> <p>ويعتبر تطوير الزراعة وقطاع النفط -الذي يعمل به عدد يزيد عن عدد العاملين في أي قطاع اخر- ضروريا لصرف الشبان العاطلين عن التشدد مع تعافي العراق من أعمال العنف الطائفي التي شهدها عامي 2006 و2007 .</p> <p>لكن عبد الله الذي يجني الفي دينار (1.71 دولار) في اليوم من عمله بالبناء لا يتوقع تحسنا كبيرا مع تولي الحكومة الجديدة.</p> <p>وقال "لا أظن أن صحوة حكومية ستحدث خاصة بعد اكثر من سبع سنوات من هذا التدهور… لست متفائلا."</p> <p>من سيرينا تشودري</p> </blockquote> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130125170711/http://ara.reuters.com/article/topNews/idARACAE6550BN20100606?sp=true" class="external" target="_blank">نقص المياه يهدد استقرار العراق على المدى الطويل | أخبار الشرق الأوسط | Reuters</a></p> </div> 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government will be able to revive Iraq’s agriculture sector, shattered by war and starved of investment.</p> <p>The 50-year-old father of five from Falluja in western Anbar province was forced to abandon his 50 acres of land and take a job in construction after years of drought killed off his wheat, barley, tomato, cucumber and watermelon harvests.</p> <p> <a title="drought_anbar" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130125170711/http://www.flickr.com/photos/27086036@N02/4675228808/" class="external" target="_blank"><img alt="drought_anbar" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20130125170711im_/http://static.flickr.com/4047/4675228808_c81b6a0ab2.jpg" border="0"/></a> <p>He has little hope of returning to farming — his primary source of income for 35 years — and plans to sell some of his land as water levels in rivers and reservoirs continue to drop, increasing the concentration of pollutants in the water.</p> <p>"Day after day, the soil situation is deteriorating because the level of salt is increasing and fertility is decreasing. It’s like a cancer hitting the human body," Hasan said.</p> <p>Already damaged by decades of war and sanctions, Iraq has acute water shortages which are expected to worsen as its population of around 30 million grows.</p> <p>A country dominated by arid desert landscapes, it has one of the most extensive irrigation systems in the world but years of war, underinvestment and sanctions have prevented it from properly harnessing what little water it has left.</p> <p>Iraq’s main rivers, the Euphrates and the Tigris, provide little relief to the parched plains as hydroelectric dams in neighbouring Turkey, Iran and Syria have stemmed the water flow.</p> <p>Investment in dilapidated infrastructure like water pumps is vital for key industries like agriculture and oil, as well as the broader reconstruction effort seven years after the U.S.-led invasion that ousted Saddam Hussein.</p> <h3>SEWAGE THREAT</h3> <p>Parched Anbar province, a vast desert area, has been hit particularly hard. Large areas of formerly arable land by the Euphrates have become unusable because of insufficient methods to pump clean water through the soil.</p> <p>The United Nations says around 83 percent of sewage is being discharged untreated into waterways, while the government estimates 24 percent of Iraqis do not have access to safe water.</p> <p>Working with U.S. experts, the government is trying to build treatment plants and biological lagoons to clean polluted water.</p> <p>In Anbar, a Provincial Reconstruction Team — a unit set up by the United States to help rebuild Iraq — has spent over $100 million (69 million pounds) to build and maintain treatment facilities and expects 97 percent of residents to have clean water by year’s end.</p> <p>Around 90 percent of Anbar’s 1.4 million people live along the Euphrates, where water levels have dropped dramatically. The river had an average flow rate of 1,000 cubic metres per second before being dammed and slowed to 290 cubic metres per second last August — its lowest level in six years.</p> <p>Iraqi officials say sewage facilities in Anbar are insufficient. A sewage system for the town of Ramadi would cost at least $400 million, they say.</p> <p>"Where are we going to find investors who will come and invest $400 million in a project like that?" said Ibrahim Madlool, the director general of water for Anbar province.</p> <p>"We are looking for support from the central government to support us in projects of this magnitude."</p> <h3>POLITICAL VOID</h3> <p>The wait may be long. Iraq has been in political limbo since a March 7 election produced no outright winner.</p> <p>It could take months before a new government is formed and that means delays in new projects that need cabinet approval.</p> <p>The new government is expected to focus on improving basic services, including negotiating more water supplies from neighbours and focussing on efficient use of the little water Iraq has.</p> <p>The lack of water threatens development of the oilfields. Iraq has the world’s third-largest reserves and struck deals last year which could propel it to major producer status.</p> <p>But large volumes of water must be pumped under ground to maintain pressure as oil is extracted. Production of a barrel of oil requires around 1.6 barrels of water.</p> <p>Developing agriculture and the oil sector, which employs more people than any other industry, are seen as crucial for keeping unemployed youth away from the insurgency as Iraq recovers from the sectarian bloodshed of 2006 and 2007.</p> <p>But Hasan, who earns 2,000 dinars ($1.71) a day in construction, expects little improvement from a new government.</p> <p>"I don’t believe that a conscious government awakening will happen, especially after more than seven years of this deterioration," he said. 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