The World Bank plans to embark on its first reconstruction projects in Iraq since the toppling of Saddam Hussein by October, the head of the bank's Iraq program said. Faris Hadad-Zervos said the projects would improve infrastructure in the war-scarred country, helping to provide water and sanitation and rehabilitate schools. The bank's interim reconstruction program for Iraq estimates the projects it envisages, which also include labor-intensive irrigation schemes, would cost between $400 and $600 million.