Except when they're the hallmarks for the twin disasters of the worst administration ever.
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Iraq is short on drinkable water... the amount of potable water currently produced in Iraq is at less than half the target amount. Like the DoD report, GAO notes that such water statistics are inaccurate; unlike the DoD report, it says why: "U.S. officials estimate that 60 percent of water treatment output is lost due to leakage, contamination, and illegal connections."
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The broken city water system is losing about 85 million gallons of water in leaks every day. That is not a typo, 85 million gallons of water a day, at a cost of $200,000 a day, are still leaking out of the system even after over 17,000 leaks have been plugged.
Michelle Krupa of the Times-Picayune reports that the city pumps 135 million gallons a day through 80 miles of pipe in order for 50 million gallons to be used. We are losing more than we are using; the repair bill is estimated to be $1 billion - money the city does not have.
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Over the past six months, Baghdad has been all but isolated electrically, Iraqi officials say, as insurgents have effectively won their battle to bring down critical high-voltage lines and cut off the capital from the major power plants to the north, south and west.
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Sixteen months after flood waters surged through New Orleans' 9th Ward following the landfall of Hurricane Katrina and the bursting of levees, the devastated section of the city "remains all but vacant," The Times-Picayune reports today...
Only 3% of the ward's homeowners have applied for electrical permits -- "enough to power only 152 houses."
Three throws for a dollar? Give me three hundred throws, please. And mix enough ice in the tank to really make him FEEL it.
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