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South Sudan: Poisoned Floods
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South Sudan: Poisoned Floods

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Unity State sits on some of South Sudan's richest oil reserves, and the film follows what decades of extraction and repeated flooding have done to the land and the people living on it. Communities describe drinking and bathing in water they say is contaminated with oil waste, cattle dying after wading through flooded fields, and children born with deformities that local health workers link to pollution. Interviews with residents, local officials, and health workers build a picture of a region where oil money flows out while the environmental costs stay behind. The cameras show flooded villages, abandoned wellheads, and makeshift clinics struggling to treat illnesses nobody has properly studied. The film raises the question of accountability: which companies operated the wells, what happened to environmental safeguards, and why a government dependent on oil revenue has done little to investigate the health complaints. It closes without a resolution, leaving Unity State's residents still waiting for anyone to test the water they rely on.