BBC
Soldiers concede this has happened, but say local people are reluctant to accept the bottled water stockpiled in the port, instead preferring to fill their own containers. The water tanker operation is certainly working. At dusk, an orderly queue of families gathers by the Royal Marine base at the border to calmly fill buckets and large cooking oil containers. There is none of the chaos which accompanied the first water supply runs after the invasion.
It may be that some locals shun offers of soaps and bottled water, because having the containers around their homes would identify them too closely with the invading British, should Saddam return as many still fear. It could also be that extra food is being requested is not to satisfy immediate hunger, but to stockpile, since many worry not only about the outcome of the war, but that Britain's interest in feeding them may soon wane. It is certainly true that the children asking for food from passing vehicles do so with smiles and looks of curiosity, rather than desperation.
They also dodge and weave from one car window to another with a speed and lightness of foot one would not expect if they were truly deprived of food and water.
'I think 'water, water' is the only English most of them have learned. I'm not sure if that's what they even really want,' says a soldier as the convoy carefully picks its way passed them.
Also what was quite amusing was when they reported that Kurdish troops in the north have made about the same ground as the allies in the south ( i know they havent had any opposition)
