Gorilla’s Guides

“The poor services and lack of healthcare put people’s lives at risk. Most Kirkuk residents cannot easily access clean drinking water or a good sewage system.”
According to the Iraqi health ministry and the World Health Organisation, WHO, over 30 per cent of water samples taken in Kirkuk have tested positive for bacterial contamination […]

Posted on September 6th, 2008 under Cholera, Early Warning, Health. Tags: Cholera, drought, IWPR, Kirkuk, Water, Water Borne Disease, Water Contamination, World Health Organisation, الكوليرا. Comments: None

عزا مدير ماء البصرة، الجمعة، سبب تلوث المياه فيها إلى انقطاعات الكهرباء المستمرة فضلا عن التجاوزات على أنابيب الماء، مشيرا إلى إن المديرية قامت بالاستعدادات اللازمة لمتابعة مشاريع الماء في المحافظة بالتعاون مع مديرية البيئة والصحة. وأوضح عبد المنعم خليل للوكالة المستقلة للأنباء(أصوات العراق) أن “مديرية ماء البصرة قامت بالاستعدادات اللازمة من اجل متابعة مشاريع […]

Posted on August 30th, 2008 under Health, Iraq, Society And Economy. Tags: Basrah, Cholera, Electricity Crisis (Irak), Maysan (Governorate), Water, Water Borne Disease, Water Contamination, Water Crisis (Iraq), الكوليرا. Comments: None

Baghdad’s nearly six million people have access to half their needs of drinking water, said Sadeq al-Shammari head of Baghdad’s Water Authority.
Shammari said practically more than three million people in Baghdad have no access to running water.
The shortage comes amid soaring temperatures which at this time of the year may brush 50 […]

Posted on August 26th, 2008 under Health, Iraq, Society And Economy. Tags: Baghdad, Electricity Crisis (Irak), UNICEF, Water, Water Crisis (Iraq). Comments: None

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - At a communal water station in a Baghdad slum, a young boy’s skinny arms fly up and down as he uses a bicycle pump to coax water from the dry ground.

His efforts produce a languid stream that will tide over his family — and the families of the children waiting near him […]

Posted on August 24th, 2008 under Features, Iraq, Society And Economy. Tags: Baghdad, Cholera, Health, Reuters, Sadr City, UNICEF, Water, Water Borne Disease, Water Contamination, Water Crisis (Iraq). Comments: 1

على الرغم من انخفاض عدد الأشخاص الفارين من ديارهم في العراق خلال النصف الأول من عام 2008، غير أن الحياة اليومية للنازحين من سكان الخيام ما تزال بائسة، وفقاً لتقييم أجرته منظمة الهجرة الدولية في 15 أغسطس/آب.
وجاء في تصريح المنظمة أن “النازحين القاطنين في الخيام لا يحصلون على الخدمات الأساسية أو يحصلون على […]

Posted on August 19th, 2008 under Features, Health, Human Rights, Iraq, Society And Economy. Tags: IDPs (Internal Refugees), IOM, IRIN, Photos, Red Crescent/Red Cross, Refugees, Sulaymaniyah, Typhoid, Water, Water Borne Disease. Comments: None

They “live surrounded by garbage”, the report said. “As a result, cases of typhoid have recently been reported.”

BAGHDAD, 17 August 2008 (IRIN) - While the rate of people fleeing their homes in Iraq has decreased during the first half of 2008, daily life for the thousands of internally displaced persons (IDPs) living in tent […]

Posted on August 18th, 2008 under Iraq, Society And Economy. Tags: IDPs (Internal Refugees), IOM, IRIN, Photos, Red Crescent/Red Cross, Refugees, Sulaymaniyah, Typhoid, Water, Water Borne Disease. Comments: None

A U.S. army soldier from Fox Troop, Sabre Squadron, 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment, sets a mud hut on fire in a deserted village on the outskirts of Balad Ruz, in Diyala province, some 75 kilometers ( 46.6 miles) northeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, Aug. 10, 2008. Soldiers from Fox Troop burned down a deserted village […]

Posted on August 10th, 2008 under Analysis Briefings Commentary, Iraq, Photos. Tags: "War on terror", American election, American War Crimes, Balad Roz, Death Squads, Diyala, Diyala "surges", Editorials, Orphans, Photos, Refugees, Vietnam, Water, Widows. Comments: 1

THere’s a reason why I never drink Pepsi, Coke, or similar, and why I have forbidden it to my children take a look at these two photos taken in Sadr City a few days ago that I have pasted together:

Here are the captions supplied by Reuters:

A resident cleans soft drink bottles before refilling them in […]

Posted on August 4th, 2008 under Children, Health, Iraq, Photos, Society And Economy. Tags: Baghdad, Children, Photos, Reuters, Sadr City, Scenes From An Iraki Childhood, Water, Water Contamination. Comments: None

GENEVA (AFP) The World Health Organisation said Thursday that cholera and typhoid pose the key risks to health in Iraq, with refugees and displaced people particularly vulnerable to any outbreak.

An Iraqi boy drinks from a water pipe crossing an uncovered sewage canal on the outskirts of Baghdad in 2007. The World Health Organisation has […]

Posted on July 17th, 2008 under Cholera, Early Warning, Iraq. Tags: Cholera, Early Warning, IDPs (Internal Refugees), Refugees, Typhoid, Water, Water Borne Disease, WHO, World Health Organisation. Comments: None