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Iraq - Contaminated drinking water threaten the lives of one third of the population of the city of Nasiriyah

sharon sanders

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Contaminated drinking water threaten the lives of one third of the population of the city of Nasiriyah Tue, 26 Mar 2013 time: 8:02
Agencies:
"Does it make sense to go out with tap water processed from small liquefaction frogs?" Asked Haji Abdul Zahra al-Asadi (80 years) He throws on dry land murky water that filled just taps his home south of the city of Nasiriyah, adds a look of glass across his glasses large pose with his beard long white label "See! Quantities of muds in water liquefaction can reach a half cup if you want drinking them, this with the optical no longer strong. "
and voice quavering says "I challenge any government official in the city of Nasiriyah to drink them like us owners families large and poor people who can not buy water systems civil", and adds "We can not remain silent on this matter, even drinking water has become need a budget to buy .. How the poor to live here?".
, supported or Zainab (housewife), saying "drinking water that we receive area Mansourieh south of Nasiriyah that there always Vblon bold, and sometimes the smell of mildew. "
for the second time intervention or Zainab with her ​​four-year-Hospital girl Huda for children over ten days, she said, trying to prevent herself from crying that "Zainab daughter virgin not stabilized condition for several months it can not stand alone as well as can not continue walking only for a few steps, as her body began to weaken and her eyes red, and doctors diagnosed her condition as malnutrition. "
and adds that the economic situation of their families have become good, and all types of eating available to her, "but the problem lies in the contaminated water."
Health centers contaminated water!
Alhaji Abdul-Zahra mother Zainab Lisa affected only from contaminated drinking water, there are about 150 thousand people live in areas south of the city of Nasiriyah reached by contaminated water through taps liquefaction government.
figures show laboratories health Dhi Qar that water processed for several areas unusable, including reviving southern Nasiriyah which includes 30% of the population of the more than 500 000 people, according to the Department of Statistics of Dhi Qar.
and the city of Nasiriyah, which was founded in 1869 is the center of the province of Dhi Qar, located at a distance of 365 km south of Baghdad.
has a population of the province of Dhi Qar 1,744,398 individuals, According to data of the National Center for Statistics announced in 2011 the results of the first phase of the project General Census of Population and Housing special census buildings and facilities and families in Iraq, the number of residents attended the province 1,097,436 individuals by 62.9%, and the population of the rural area 646,962 individuals by 37.1%, and hold about a quarter in its city of Nasiriyah, an area of the province 12,900 km 2 and the ruins of the city of Ur historical terms cradle civilization Sumerians.
identified statistical annual for 2012 issued by the Department of Health Control Department Health Dhi Qar and addressed to the Ministry of Health in Baghdad that "nearly 32% of the water withdrawn from the projects and stations The complexes aquatic relegated Qar contaminated بكتريولوجيا and unusable, while a survey showed last for the same department that the failure rate in screening chemical was 30% of the models drawn shares of 1865 samples taken from 164 projects and complex hydraulically different preservation. "
It is strange that annual statistical which I disqualification percentage clear of the water used at health centers relegated Qar "also identified the presence of contamination bacteriological in 21% of them, as well as the presence of contamination chemical in 28% of the water health centers under examination and the 57 health centers.

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