The Iraqi government has been busy signing a series of billion-dollar deals with major international oil companies who are attempting to gain access to Iraq's vast oil wells.<br /><br />But in poverty-stricken areas of the oil-rich southern city of Basra, residents say they have not seen any of the wealth generated by the deals.<br /><br />Instead, they have complained of widespread unemployment, intermittent electricity and wells filled with septic water.<br /><br />Al Jazeera's Owen Fay reports.
