The escalating humanitarian crisis in Venezuela turned worse Thursday when the nation’s tap water ran black with oil as starving residents scramble to find food and other basic supplies across the impoverished country.
“Venezuelans have woken up to find their tap water running black in the latest crisis to hit the beleaguered South American nation,” reports the Daily Mail. “Residents in San Diego, Carabobo state, flooded social media with pictures and videos of the black water while complaining it had been contaminated with oil.”
People collect water from an open pipe above Venezuela's polluted Guaire River during rolling blackouts as growing chaos takes hold in the country. https://t.co/vvUHIP1yVx pic.twitter.com/d3ekODJdFm
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Government agencies delivered drinking water to desperate locals with cement trucks Wednesday as residents struggle to deal with the week-long blackout that has crippled the once oil-rich nation.
Read the full report at the Daily Mail.