Sanctions Are Crippling lraq's Water System. Economic sanctions imposed on Iraq by the United States and the United Nations have created a crisis in fresh water and waste water treatment. Sanctions have kept Iraq from rebuilding a system severely damaged in the 1991 Gulf War.
Sanctions forbid Iraq from maintaining and repairing the system in a timely manner.
And sanctions make it impossible for Iraq to expand the system for increased population and industrial demands. The population, unable to get safe drinking water, is suffering widespread diarrhea and dysentery. The most vulnerable victims, the children, arc dying. Unable to properly treat waste water, the country is facing even more extensive medical and ecological problems in the future. Chlorine Needed Immediately to Alleviate Crisis.