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A sewage treatment plant promised by US officials to residents of Fallujah in return for supporting the invasion is being left unfinished as the US military withdraw, with "not a single house connected to the system". Sewage-related diseases are running high as existing septic tanks leak into streets and the Euphrates, source of drinking water for residents throughout the region.

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