i went to meetjamal al—adili who has responsibility for the country's water resources.lot of tests — a lot of tests. there are some traces of heavy metals which should not be in the water but i do not think it is the cause, the real cause. it is the mixture of sewerage water in the shatt al—arab, and sea water and the scarcity of pure water, all this together which make this water not suitable for human consumption. if people keep dumping raw sewerage, poisons, toxins... of course, it is catastrophic. the augmentation and the increase of population, of course, the increase of use of water and the increase of sewerage, this will destroy everything. it will destroy everything? of course, of course, it will destroy the quality of water they need to drink and to supply everything they need. the government says it is investing in water treatment projects to prevent a repeat of last summer's crisis, but iraq can't do it on its own, and that's because most of its water comes from neighbouring countries, including iran. what's really interesting is we've been meeting a lot of o