IRAQ: Running Out of Water in Rising Heat
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An elderly woman reaches into the depths of her burqa for a small plastic bag, not even the size of a grocery sack.
She’ll take this much flour.
It requires only two scoops from a burlap-lined bushel for the merchant to fill his customer’s bag, weighing the precious commodity on battered scales. A fistful of Afghan dollars [...]
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