our guide, nabil, grew up here. as a forklift driver overseas but the beauty of iraq brought him home. now he's an environmental activist, dedicated to cleaning up the country's waterways and he says iraqis need to wake up to the nightmare they've created. this is cancer. if we don't solve, if we don't fix this, this cancer will spread, obviously. you can see this is sliding down and going into our life, which is our drinking water, so it's going to affect our food, our children, our fish and creatures, insects, bugs, everything, so the cancer will spread so we need to kill this cancer, yes. if i was to fall into that, would i survive? no. you will be lucky if you survive. this is the deadliest liquid, this is pure litter and we've been dumping oils for the last 10 years, and of course, the garbage going to the oils plus the litter, sulphur, asphalt, heavy metals, everything in this. pure poison. yes, this is pure contamination and it's pure poison. but it's notjust the quality of iraq's water, it's the quantity too