Oil spills threaten Ondo. (The Beat).

From: Environmental Health Perspectives | Date: December 1, 2001| Author: Dooley, Erin E. | Copyright information

Pollution from oil spills has contaminated most of the freshwater creeks--a main source of drinking water and food--in Nigeria's southern state of Ondo. In a 5 August 2001 News of Nigeria report, Ondo state environmental commissioner Sola Ebiseni said that he feared this could lead to an epidemic of waterborne diseases.

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