Health services, water supplies, farming and transport are already being strained, the assessment adds.
Basic municipal services (water, electricity, and gas) were installed beginning in the late 1880s.
Government must guarantee the fact that people need basic services, water in particular and sanitation, and ensure that no price should be charged beyond what is affordable.
We want core services – water, electricity, gas, railways – brought back into public ownership, and a benefit system that does not demean the people whom it should be supporting.
Yesterday, we had heavy rain in Aleppo and as the city has been neglected for a long time without municipality services water swamped the roads.
"Everybody would come back if there were public services, water and electricity," said Saoud Fahad, a 24-year-old who runs a money-changing shop, and came home within days of Isis' departure.
This important shift by the Sunni tribes could come unglued if the Shiite-led Iraqi government doesn't start providing government services — water, fuel and electricity — to the Sunni areas the tribes have retaken.
Other measures include the supply of water pumps, mobile latrines, mobile health services, water purification tablets and the training of community workers to raise awareness of basic sanitation such as washing hands.
Ours is a toll-booth economy, unchallenged by any major party, in which companies which have captured essential public services – water, energy, trains – charge extraordinary fees we have no choice but to pay.
With the enforced privatizing of urban services: water, electricity, sewage treatment, only the well off were serviced at much higher prices, while the poor now had to pay the exploitative private suppliers.
Typically, these functions include waste and sanitary services, water, roads, land use, inspection and licensing, maintaining public libraries and recreational facilities, town planning, and the promotion of district attractions and amenities.
