Community in Nigeria drinking polluted water
URGENT ACTION
(27-10-2018)
There is an urgent need for the government and multinational oil company Shell to
ensure a regular supply of safe water to people in the oil-producing Niger Delta
region of Nigeria. Their right to water continues to be violated as they are forced to
drink dangerously polluted water or buy water at unaffordable prices.
The multinational oil company Shell and the government of Rivers State, in southern
Nigeria, have failed to provide residents in Ogale, (…) with a regular source of
safe water. Most people must either buy water or drink groundwater, which a United
Nations study published in 2011 found to be dangerously contaminated. (…)