Iraq: Boiling Basra: Residents Afraid of Their Taps as Iraq's Water Crisis Threatens to Destabilise the Region

Oct 1, 2018 | Bel Trew, Independent
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Basra’s water crisis is the final tipping point of a long list of woes in a town that has been rocked by protests and riots since August. Thousands of people have poured onto the streets over the past month demanding water and proper services in a wave of unrest that saw parts of Basra go up in flames and threatened to unseat the country’s prime minister, Haider al-Abadi.