Water cuts and rising food prices leave Mosul facing crisis
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Fighting between Iraqi troops and ISIS militants has cut water supplies across a large part of Mosul, where poorer families are already struggling to feed themselves, and a local official said the increasingly encircled city was in crisis.
Water was cut to 650,000 people—or 40 percent of residents—when a pipeline was hit during fighting between the jihadists and US-backed Iraqi government forces trying to crush them in their northern Iraq stronghold, a local official said.
"We are facing a humanitarian catastrophe," said Hussam al-Abar, a member of Mosul's Nineveh provincial council, adding that 1.5 million people were still inside Mosul. He said the pipeline ran through a contested part of the city and could not be reached by repair teams. "Basic services such as water, electricity, health, food are non-existent," he said, standing in an eastern suburb while mortars were fired inside the city.
