American military officials, hoping to jump-start the economy by restoring basic services like electricity and water, complain that the country's leaderless bureaucrats are paralyzed, waiting for commands that no one is giving.
The move was immediately met with resistance: People showed up to city council meetings holding bottles filled with yellow water, complaining that their hair was falling out, or that their dog had died, and demanding to know what was coming out of their tap.
"Companies that supply treated surface water complain they have few users and not enough money for upgrades, but then they can't grow the customer base because the water quality is unreliable".
"We don't have water," Ngqulunga complained.
(He once put bread and butter into boiling water and complained about how bad the tea was).
Near a pool of standing water, they complained of a reeling stock market, factories closing, chaos in the streets and the writ of the bultagiyya, slang for thugs.
An employee of the Hunter Water Board complained that he was discriminated over a five-year period by colleagues over his perceived homosexuality.
Dashing and courteous, splendidly handsome, he wished often for the strange hats he saw, bowler or thin-brimmed, foot-high or scarlet-plumed, in order to flourish them high to all the people who wished him well.Critics of his two best-loved books, "A Time of Gifts" (1977) and "Between the Woods and the Water" (1986), complained that he swanned through 1930s Europe without noticing the clouds.
"A lot of poor people are suffering from a lack of food and water," she complained.
Indeed, one senior director of a British water firm complains that there is too much western capital chasing too few water projects.Even after a water contract is signed, the risks are legion.
