IRAQ

Times of India: UN calls for steps to provide safe water in Iraq

UNITED NATIONS: The United Nations has called for urgent steps to
provide safe drinking water to the people in Iraq after a diarrhoeal illness
broke out in one of Baghdad's poorest neighbourhood and some 300 people, many
of children, were hospitalised within a span of three hours. The recent
incident, a spokesman said, highlights the need for providing safe
drinking water throughout Iraq. "We are faced with a very real possibility that
in the South of the country, water treatment plants will very soon run out
of supplies of chemicals needed to make raw water safe to drink".