Baghdad, Iraq ? Baghdad’s mayor decried the capital’s crumbling infrastructure and its inability to supply enough clean water to residents, threatening Thursday to resign if the government won’t provide more money.

An Iraqi boy walks past stagnant water in the Sadr City section of Baghdad, Iraq, last March. Baghdad's mayor decried the capital's crumbling infrastructure and its inability to supply enough water to residents Thursday, threatening to resign if the government fails to provide the funds needed to improve utilities.

The statement from Mayor Alaa Mahmoud al-Timimi was an indication of the daily misery that Baghdad’s 6.45 million people still endure more than two years after the U.S.-led invasion. They are racked not only by unrelenting bombings and kidnappings, but by serious shortages in water, electricity and fuel.

“It’s useless for any official to stay in office without the means to accomplish his job,” al-Timimi told reporters.

Al-Timimi is seeking $1.5 billion for Baghdad in 2005 but so far has received only $85 million, said his spokesman, Ameer Ali Hasson.

Efforts to expand Baghdad’s water projects were set back earlier this month when insurgents sabotaged a pipeline near Baghdad. Now, some complain the water they do get smells bad, and Hasson acknowledged in some areas, the water gets mixed with sewage.

According to City Hall, Baghdad produces about 544 million gallons of water per day, some 370 million gallons short of its required amount. Some 55 percent of the water is lost through leakage in the pipes.

Iraqis also complain of shortages of power and fuel.

Before the U.S.-led invasion, Baghdad residents had about 20 hours of electricity a day. Today, they get about 10, usually broken into two-hour chunks.