70 Percent Of Iraqis Lack Clean Drinking Water As US Struggles To Restore Access

70 Percent Of Iraqis Lack Clean Drinking Water As US Struggles To Restore Access

The water tankers arrive twice a week in this parched village surrounded by fallow fields stretching into the horizon. The town's wells still pump out a flow, but few villagers dare drink from it unless in desperation.

At the gate of Kayria Fayhan's home, 250 gallons of the trucked-in cargo fill a metal tank for cooking and drinking, sometimes for washing up if itching from the groundwater becomes unbearable.

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