From the Independent:

Supporters say the provision allowing oil companies to take up to 75 per cent of the profits will last until they have recouped initial drilling costs. After that, they would collect about 20 per cent of all profits, according to industry sources in Iraq. But that is twice the industry average for such deals.

Greg Muttitt, a researcher for Platform, a human rights and environmental group which monitors the oil industry, said Iraq was being asked to pay an enormous price over the next 30 years for its present instability. "They would lose out massively," he said, "because they don't ha...

From the Independent:

Supporters say the provision allowing oil companies to take up to 75 per cent of the profits will last until they have recouped initial drilling costs. After that, they would collect about 20 per cent of all profits, according to industry sources in Iraq. But that is twice the industry average for such deals.

Greg Muttitt, a researcher for Platform, a human rights and environmental group which monitors the oil industry, said Iraq was being asked to pay an enormous price over the next 30 years for its present instability. "They would lose out massively," he said, "because they don't have the capacity at the moment to strike a good deal."

n2sooners said:

They have much better water, sewage, and electrical systems than they had before.

Some figures:

Electricity capacity in Iraq (in megawatts) prior to invasion (March 2003): 4,500
Electricity capacity in Iraq (in megawatts) in July 2006: 4,200

Approximate amount U.S. taxpayers have invested in Iraq’s electricity sector: $5 billion

Percent of Iraqis who had access to sewer service prior to invasion: 24
Percent of Iraqis who had access to sewer service in February 2006: 20

Number of Iraqis who had access to potable water before invasion: 13 million...

n2sooners said:

They have much better water, sewage, and electrical systems than they had before.

Some figures:

Electricity capacity in Iraq (in megawatts) prior to invasion (March 2003): 4,500
Electricity capacity in Iraq (in megawatts) in July 2006: 4,200

Approximate amount U.S. taxpayers have invested in Iraq’s electricity sector: $5 billion

Percent of Iraqis who had access to sewer service prior to invasion: 24
Percent of Iraqis who had access to sewer service in February 2006: 20

Number of Iraqis who had access to potable water before invasion: 13 million

Number of Iraqis who have access to potable water, according to the April 2006 SIGIR report: 8 million

Number of the planned 142 health care clinics that actually will be completed under the Army Corps of Engineers $243 million program: 20

Number of the planned 136 sanitation and water projects that will be completed: 49

Number of Iraqi physicians registered prior to the invasion: 34,000
Number of Iraqi physicians who have been murdered or fled the country since the invasion: 14,000

Infant mortality rate in Iraq: (Middle East average is 37, sub-Saharan Africa average is 105) 102 (see this clip for a good case that things have gotten worse for newborn infants in Iraq since the invasion)

Mr. Popps said it is first important to understand what the rebuilding
team inherited. U.S. intelligence knew little about the actual state of
Iraq's energy infrastructure and social service network. When the Army
Corps of Engineers got on the ground, there was shock:

• The three regional sewage treatments plants in greater
Baghdad did not work; raw waste poured into the Tigris River and
downstream through villages. Sadr City, the impoverished Shi'ite slum
repressed by the ruling Sunni Ba'ath Party, lacked any sewage system.
"Some slam the Americans because there is sewage in Sadr City," said an
incredulous Mr. Popps. "Please."

• Few towns had a c...

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Mr. Popps said it is first important to understand what the rebuilding
team inherited. U.S. intelligence knew little about the actual state of
Iraq's energy infrastructure and social service network. When the Army
Corps of Engineers got on the ground, there was shock:

• The three regional sewage treatments plants in greater
Baghdad did not work; raw waste poured into the Tigris River and
downstream through villages. Sadr City, the impoverished Shi'ite slum
repressed by the ruling Sunni Ba'ath Party, lacked any sewage system.
"Some slam the Americans because there is sewage in Sadr City," said an
incredulous Mr. Popps. "Please."

• Few towns had a central supply of clean water.

• The electrical grid suffered under 1950s technology and
disrepair. Saddam Hussein starved the rest of the country of power to
give the capital of 6 million about 20 hours a day.

• The country lacked any primary health care facilities;
hospitals and schools were run down and lacked supplies. New hospitals
had not been built in 20 years. More than half the public health
centers remained closed. Of 13,000 schools, more than 10,000 needed
significant renovations.

Today, the Pentagon is handing out a score sheet:

• Six new primary care facilities, with 66 more under
construction; 11 hospitals renovated; more than 800 schools fixed up;
more than 300 police stations and facilities and 248 border control
forts.

• Added 407,000 cubic meters per day of water treatment; a new
sewage-treatment system for Basra; work on Baghdad's three plants
continues; oil production exceeds the 2002 level of 2 million barrels a
day by 500,000.

• The Ministry of Electricity now sends power to Baghdad for
four to eight hours a day, and 10 to 12 for the rest of the country.
Iraqis are now free to buy consumer items such as generators, which
provide some homes wit