70% without adequate water supplies
Submitted by antarchi on September 2, 2007 - 02:18
A report released Jul. 30 by [Oxfam and NCCI] said that eight million Iraqis, nearly one in three, were in dire need of emergency aid. The report said that 70 percent of Iraqis are without adequate water supplies, compared to 50 percent in 2003, the year the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq was launched. About 80 percent of Iraqis lack effective sanitation.
According to the Oxfam report, "child malnutrition rates have risen from 19 percent before the U.S.-led invasion in 2003 to 28 percent now." Lack of potable water is at the root of most such conditions.
