Children in Iraq Need H20.

There are many negative things that one can say about terrorists and military combatants in Iraq. I am sure that these fighters don’t care about what Westerners think about them but I would hope that these individuals care about their own children. Currently in many areas of Iraq, there is a danger water shortage. In 2010, four years after the Iraq war, millions of Iraqi children are unable to access safe water. Efforts to repair Iraq’s war damaged water networks have been seriously disrupted by threats and violence regarding technicians and engineers. Due to damage during bombs and explosions, there are ongoing electricity shortages which effects water pumping.

The majority of Iraqi families depend on municipal water piped directly into their homes. But many of these pipes and related systems are not functioning because of war destruction. Pipes are many times cracked, corroded and leaking, which causes water wastage and allows sewage to get in the water. The fact is that some water networks are turning into homes for dangerous waterborne diseases.

What these terrorists, who are attacking American soldiers, American workers, or other non-militant Iraqis, fail to realize is that their fighting and attacks are disturbing the water supply in their country. Not to be a bearer of bad news for these militants but they are hurting themselves and more importantly, their children by not having clean, running water. Even though these militants may never change their ideologies, they could at least not attack people trying to fix the water or have some insight into how a bomb may affect public water works system that children need and they, the militant, might need themselves. That would be an ironic twist of fate.

A terrorist plants a car bomb that goes off and a consequence of the blast is that a water pipe that goes to that terrorist apartment gets cracked, which allows bacteria and other dangerous micro organisms to mix with the water. The terrorist is thirsty, drinks his water, and then gets very sick from drinking dirty water. That seems like justice but I wouldn’t want that to happen an innocent kid or the kid of that terrorist.

This blog is based on the e-article found at http://www.unicef.org.uk/press/news_detail_full_story.asp?news_id=917