The kid ran for a mile. At the very least he was thirsty. The kid's push is heroic! And then the soldier throws the water to somebody else-all while videotaping the whole time. To me, it represents somebody with mental illness. Not a "crime", not "courtmartiable", but clearly sociopathic, and clearly doing nothing to make the situation any better over there. Iraq needs $15bn to fix water supply. Iraq, the land of two rivers that once irrigated the world's earliest civilisations, needs up to $15 billion to repair a dilapidated water system crippled by war and neglect, the country's water minister said on Tuesday. More than two years after the fall of Saddam Hussein, the country of the Euphrates and the Tigris is struggling with recurrent water shortages in Baghdad and other large cities, poor sanitation and a shattered irrigation network.