Tag: southern Iraq

Boiling heat and no water: taps run dry in southern Iraq

AL-AGHAWAT, Iraq (AFP) – Younes Ajil turns on the tap in his home but nothing comes out: dozens of villages are without running water in drought-hit Iraq, surviving on sporadic tanker-truck deliveries and salty wells. For everything from drinking to bathing and washing dishes and clothes, Ajil and his eight children wait at their home in Al-Aghawat for trucked-in water from the Diwaniyah provincial authorities once or twice a week. In burning summer temperatures that […]