While a political vacuum continues to hold Iraq in its grip, the lives of ordinary citizens are unsurprisingly in limbo.<br /><br />Living conditions are worsening by the day in some neighbourhoods in the capital Baghdad, with overflowing sewers, regular power cuts and a shortage of clean drinking water.<br /><br />Al Jazeera's Omar Al-Saleh reports from Baghdad on how the lack of basic services is making life much harder for many.<br /><br />[July 4, 2010]
