The Kathiramangalam crisis: Is groundwater in TN village contaminated beyond repair?.
If its colour makes you curious, the revelation that it is water, will leave you shocked.
The villagers of Kathiramangalam had sat in protest on Saturday, following the leak in an ONGC pipeline.
They refused to let police or ONGC officials fix the leak till their questions were answered by the Thanjavur collector himself.
Ideally there should use high grade material to encase the oil and gas so that it doesn’t leak, but clearly it seems to have already entered the water table," he alleged.
Piyush claims to have witnessed that the water that villagers were pumping out turned brown within an hour.
But they did admit that 15 cents of agricultural land had absorbed oil that leaked out of the pipeline on Saturday.
They further claimed that a report on the leak will be readied in two months.
By the time the report is readied, the damage done by the spill to the environment, human and livestock health and the groundwater would be undoable.
If this does not sound grave enough, the report also says that the oil that has leaked could also have carried along with it, produced water.