Electricity water & sewage
Ongoing Electricity Shortage Costs Iraq Economy $40 Billion a Year
By: Walid Khadduri Translated from Al-Hayat (Pan Arab). اقرا المقال الأصلي باللغة العربية
On Sept. 14, 2013,
the Iraqi parliament's Oil and Energy Committee published a report drafted by the advisory board of the Prime Minister's Office, which indicated that Iraq is losing around $40 billion annually due to the lingering power outage crisis. The report confirmed that the continuous power outages caused serious damage to petrochemical plants and private plants.
Christopher Hitchens: Reconstruction of Iraq, Democratic Presidentia
Published on Aug 5, 2013
Investment in post-2003 Iraq refers to international efforts to rebuild the infrastructure of Iraq since the Iraq War in 2003.
Along with the economic reform of Iraq, international projects have been implemented to repair and upgrade Iraqi water and sewage treatment plants, electricity production, hospitals, schools, housing, and transportation systems. Much of the work has been funded by the Iraq Relief and Reconstruction Fund, and the Coalition Provisional Authority
Rachel Maddow - Electricity Hell in Iraq
Uploaded on Aug 20, 2010
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Power Struggle - Iraq
Uploaded on Nov 1, 2010
The rusty old Dora Power Station sits on a quarter of the world's energy resources but creaks out only half the energy produced under Saddam. Squatter families like Zaheda's struggle to find clean water in the middle of a sweltering Baghdad summer. And with only two hours of electricity a day from the national grid, Iraqis queue for hours for petrol to fuel generators. "We are the richest country in the world, but right now we're the poorest". Once the target for insurgency bombings, now the country's vital oil installations are under the fierce protection of the Iraq oil police. Brigadier Abdul Karim Salem is quick to describe the "rampant corruption" within his organisation.
Iraq looks to sea to solve electricity shortage
Published on Apr 29, 2012
Nine years after the war and with billions of US dollars spent, the power is off more often than its on in Iraq.
In provinces like Basra there is an especially high need.
Al Jazeera's Jane Arraf reports from Abu Falous Port in Basra.
Electricity Problem in Iraq
Saif Rashid
Electricity Problem in Iraq
Iraq: Powering up after a decade down
Mohammed Haddad and Ben Piven Last Modified: 20 Mar 2013
Iraq Speaks: citizen reports
A lasting solution to Iraq's energy shortages is elusive, but involves a creative mix of attempted fixes every day by individuals and businesses, as well as a long term plan to build more power plants to serve a burgeoning population and fulfill its energy desires.
Electricity: Iraq’s Other Power Vacuum
Electricity — or the lack thereof — remains more than a complaint. It has become a central benchmark by which Iraqis judge the post-war order. And, almost universally, they judge it to have failed in this regard.
Two phrases heard on the streets are repeated so often they have become conventional wisdom, even mantras: The country that could put a man on the moon can’t fix another country’s electricity? The superpower that got Kuwait’s electricity running within months in the early 1990s couldn’t do the same in Iraq a decade later?
Iraq: A country in shambles
Despite promises made for improvements, Iraq's economy and infrastructure are still a disaster.Baghdad, Iraq - As a daily drumbeat of violence continues to reverberate across Iraq, people here continue to struggle to find some sense of normality, a task made increasingly difficult due to ongoing violence and the lack of both water and electricity.
During the build-up to the US-led invasion of Iraq, the Bush administration promised the war would bring Iraqis a better life, and vast improvements in their infrastructure, which had been severely debilitated by nearly 13 years of strangling economic sanctions.
More jobs, improved water availability, more reliable electricity supplies, and major rehabilitation of the medical infrastructure were promised.
But now that the US military has ended its formal military occupation of Iraq, nearly eight years of war has left the promises as little more than a mirage.
Lack of electricity and water puts Iraqis on edge during heat of summer
By Leila FadelWednesday, June 23, 2010
At least three times a week, Maher Abbas brings one of his two young children or his elderly mother to the hospital to be treated for dehydration, stomach bugs or heat exhaustion.
Lack of water and electricity are killing his family and his business, he said.
"I have so much anger," Abbas said outside the music store he runs in the poor neighborhood of Amil, in western Baghdad. When there is no power, there is no music playing in the store, and customers don't come. "I can't work," he said. "I can't support my family. We're dying from the heat. Where are these politicians?"
Daily Electricity Supply and Demand 2010
Iraq: A Country Study - Page 157 - Google Books Result
Helen Chapin Metz - 2004 - HistoryBy 1983 the production and consumption of electricity had recovered to the prewar levels of 15.6 billion kwh (kilowatt hours) and 11.7 157 Iraq, a country study ...
Inside Iraq - Iraq's lack of electricity
Uploaded on Jul 4, 2010
During the past weeks riots have been breaking out all over Iraq over electricity cuts. Angry demonstrators clashed with security forces and demanded the resignation of the electricity minister.
Losing Power: Iraqi oil flows while locals lack electricity, water
Published on May 19, 2013
Iraq is now the eighth most-corrupt country in the world - ten years after the invasion which was supposed to restore the country. Millions of dollars are handed out in fake contracts, while locals
Electricity: Blistering black-outs
IRIN
Despite investment in the generation capacity in recent years, Iraq’s electricity supply system remains unreliable, offering an average of eight hours of electricity a day.
Water and Sanitation: Are the taps flowing?
IRIN
While access to clean water has improved over the last decade, more than one quarter of Iraqis still have less than two hours of access to water from the general network every day.