“We Are Drinking Poison”: Women and children suffer as gas leak pollutes rivers in Rivers State Residents of Oshie and Akinima communities in Rivers State are living in fear as a persistent gas leak from an Oando underwater pipeline contaminates the Orashi River, their primary source of water, food, and livelihood. “We are really worried. After drinking the water, both children and adults feel sickly. We now have to buy sachet water,” lamented Mrs. Ngozi Ididie, 59, as she stood helplessly by the river that once sustained her community. “This river...