The other reason for the expectations is growing despair about Iraq.
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官方声称,除非伊拉克正视自己水源短缺的现状,以及上千年来的欠佳的水源管理。
Officials say nothing will improve if Iraq does not seriously address its own water shortages, and its history - going back millennia - of flawed water management.
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或者是通过伊拉克的教训,他们宁愿维持现状也不愿面对变革可能带来的混乱。
Or perhaps, observing Iraq, they prefer stagnation to the chaos that change might bring.