Boiling heat and no water: Taps run dry in southern Iraq

People collect water from a cistern in al-Aghawat, Iraq

People gather on July 18, 2022 to collect water from a cistern amid shortage and high temperature in the village of al-Aghawat in Iraq's central Diwaniya province. Dozens of villages are without running water in drought-hit southern Iraq.

Photo credit: Haidar Indhar | AFP

By  AFP

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