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Article

24 May 2018

Author:
Ahmed Idris, Al Jazeera

Nigeria: How oil pollution has severely contaminated food & water sources for Ogoni community


"Nigeria's Ogoniland: Desperate for clean water"

Residents of Ogoniland are getting sick because of the severe contamination of their food and water sources. In the Ogoni region, 90 percent of the underground water is not fit for human use because of oil pollution. A big clean-up is under way in Ogoniland, but local communities say they have already become victims of water contamination.