Climate change: Floods 'spreading oil pollution' in South Sudan

With swathes of South Sudan submerged, a whistleblower warns water sources are being polluted by oil.

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"The water is dirty because this place has oil - it has chemicals in it," says their chief, Chilhok Puot.

Nyatabah, a woman from this community raising cows in the heart of oil fields in Unity State, adds: "If you drink it, it makes you pant and cough.

"We know it's bad water, but we don't have anywhere else, we're dying of thirst."

A former oil engineer, David Bojo Leju, has told the BBC World service that flooding in the area is washing pollution into water sources.

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