Oil-soaked Ogoni communities in Nigeria still lack safe water after decade of stalled cleanup

Oil-soaked Ogoni communities in Nigeria still lack safe water after decade of stalled cleanup

Nearly 14 years after the United Nations declared the oil-tainted water of Nigeria’s Ogoniland a public health emergency, residents still drink from foul, benzene-laced wells.AnuOluwapo Adelakun reports for the Pulitzer Center.In short:United Nations investigators found benzene levels up to 999 times above safety limits in Ogoni groundwater, yet promised pipelines, waterworks, and health registries remain unfinished.Shell and the federally backe…