Sudan: Oil production ‘threatens village water’
Oil production and prospecting in southern Sudan, seen as one of the causes of a decades-long civil war, is unleashing a new tragedy in villages by contaminating drinking water, a German-based interdenominational humanitarian organisation is warning.
"In some villages the villagers are not able to drink borehole water. That means they are denied access to clean drinking water by the oil companies," Klaus Stieglitz, vice-chairperson of the Sign of Hope group told journalists in Nairobi after a 8-15 November visit to southern Sudan's oil rich area of Bentiu.
(Ecumenical News International)
