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Containing disease in a Syrian refugee camp in Iraq

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Follow @{0}FEEDBACKEMAILPRINTEASY READSHARE DOMIZ CAMP, 3 July 2013 (IRIN) - On a hot June afternoon, 27-year-old Gharib Mohammed stands outside his tent at this camp for Syrian refugees in Iraq, shovel in hand. Sewage and garbage have blocked the small stream that runs the length of his dusty avenue and the smell has entered his tent. “There are some other streams but I can’t clean them all. I just clean the one in front of my home. If everybody did the same thing, the camp would be clean, but not everybody does it.” The water running past Mohammed’s house is what is technically known as “grey” water - cooking and washing water that is not contaminated...

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