Petroleum contaminated water and health symptoms: a cross-sectional pilot study in a rural Nigerian community

Kponee, Kale; Chiger, Andrea; Kakulu, Iyenemi Ibimina; Vorhees, Donna J.; Heiger-Bernays, Wendy

doi:10.1186/s12940-015-0073-0

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“…In 2011, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) sampled Ogale drinking water wells and detected numerous petroleum hydrocarbons in water samples from individual borehole drinking water wells, notably benzene at concentrations as high as 9280 μg l -1 . From the results obtained, the concentration of benzene was approximately 1800 times higher than the United States Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA) drinking water tolerable limit [26,28] and over 900 times higher than the World Health Organization (WHO) drinking water guidelines acceptable limit [28]. Consequently, the UNEP recommended immediate provision of clean drinking water for the residents [84], medical surveillance, and a prospective cohort study.…”

Section: Water Quality Problems In the Nigeria's Niger Delta Regionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Petroleum hydrocarbons contamination of the controlled water sources is becoming a global environmental problem and over the past thirty (30) years, several studies have been carried out to evaluate the extent of surface water and groundwater contamination in the Niger Delta region [26,28,[63][64][65][66][67][68][69][70][71][72][73][74]. In a study, Nduka and Orisakwe [70] investigated water quality problems in the Niger Delta of Nigeria focusing on polyaromatic and straight chain hydrocarbons in some selected surface waters collected from mid-Niger Delta (Bayelsa, Delta and Rivers States).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…According to Ite et al [1], every stage of petroleum resources exploration, development and production, decommissioning and rehabilitation, transportation and distribution often results in some considerable environmental impacts, human health risks and deterioration of our cultural heritage items as well as socio-economic problems within the oil producing host communities in the region. The major sources of environmental pollution in the Niger Delta region include oil spillage, pipeline explosion, gas flaring and venting, improper disposal of large volumes of petroleum-derived hazardous waste streams, such as drilling mud, oily and toxic sludge [12], equipment failure/oil spills associated with ageing facilities, sabotage of petroleum facilities, illegal oil bunkering and artisanal refining [1,5,27,31], oil well blowout, oil blast discharges and other operational discharges [1,4,5,9,10,36,44,45,46]. Historically, the two largest individual spills in Nigeria include the Royal Dutch Shell's Forcados oil export terminal tank failure in 1978 (a spillage of approximately 580,000 barrels or 92,000 m 3 of oil) and the blowout of a Texaco Funiwa-5 offshore station in 1980 (a spillage of approximately 400,000 barrels or 64,000 m 3 of oil) [47,48].…”

Section: The Niger Delta Region Of Nigeria and Petroleum Hydrocarbonsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Petroleum hydrocarbons contamination of the total environment (air, soil, water and biota) in the Nigeria's Niger Delta region has become a paramount interest and several studies have revealed various negative impacts of oil toxicity on the environment and exposed populations [1,4,5,6,7,22,25,26]. According to Ite et al [5], the poor environmental management practices by the petroleum industries and the failure of Nigeria's environmental regulations contribute to environmental contamination with direct consequences on the surrounding populations' socio-economic wellbeing, human health and the environment.…”

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Petroleum Hydrocarbons Contamination of Surface Water and Groundwater in the Niger Delta Region of Nigeria

Ite¹,

Harry²,

Obadimu³

et al. 2018

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Petroleum hydrocarbons contamination of the environment associated with exploration, development and production operations is a common feature in oil producing nations around the world, especially in a developing country like Nigeria where the incidence of facilities sabotage, operational failures, accidental discharges, pipeline vandalization and leakages, bunkering and artisanal refining is very common. Apart from poor governance systems, poor corporate social responsibility (CSR) of multinational oil companies (MOCs), poor environmental regulation of the petroleum industry, the inability of the political elite to effectively manage petroleum hydrocarbon-derived revenue, loss of petroleum hydrocarbons resource revenue to corruption and theft, petroleum hydrocarbons contamination of the total environment (air, soil, water and biota) have impacted negatively on the human health and wellbeing of oil producing communities in the Nigeria's Niger Delta region. Findings from several studies have revealed variable negative impacts of petroleum hydrocarbons toxicity on the human health (including exposed populations), the natural environment and other ecological receptors. Over the past fifty-five years, the oil producing host communities in the Nigeria's Niger Delta region have experienced a wide range of environmental pollution, degradation, human health risks, deterioration of our cultural heritage items and socio-economic problems as a result of various activities associated with petroleum exploration, development and production. Petroleum hydrocarbons contamination of surface water and groundwater is a notable environmental and human health problem in the oil producing communities and there are several water quality issues in the Nigeria's Niger Delta region. This review examines some of the water quality issues and human health implications of petroleum hydrocarbons contamination of controlled water sources (surface-water and groundwater) in the oil producing host communities in the Nigeria's Niger Delta region. It will further highlight some of the problems of petroleum hydrocarbons contamination and/or pollution of marine environments associated with unsustainable practices of petroleum industry in the region.

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Section: Water Quality Problems In the Nigeria's Niger Delta Regionmentioning

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Section: Water Quality Problems In the Nigeria's Niger Delta Regionmentioning

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Section: The Niger Delta Region Of Nigeria and Petroleum Hydrocarbonsmentioning

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Petroleum Hydrocarbons Contamination of Surface Water and Groundwater in the Niger Delta Region of Nigeria

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“…Both passive biosorption and active uptake of pollutants by cyanobacterial cell are termed ''Bioaccumulation'', and the phenomenon is referred to as phycoremediation tool (Malik 2004;Sharma 2012). However, the phenomenon can be (2011) Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon DNA damage and mutations Kponee et al (2015) Possible recovery influenced by various factors, including environmental conditions, contaminants, other microbes, etc., as mentioned in Fig. 2 (Rastogi et al 2014).…”

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Green remediation. Tool for safe and sustainable environment: a review

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Nowadays, the bioremediation of toxic pollutants is a subject of interest in terms of health issues and environmental cleaning. In the present review, an ecofriendly, cost-effective approach is discussed for the detoxification of environmental pollutants by the means of natural purifier, i.e., blue-green algae over the conventional methods. Industrial wastes having toxic pollutants are not able to eliminate completely by existing the conventional techniques; in fact, these methods can only change their form rather than the entire degradation. These pollutants have an adverse effect on aquatic life, such as fauna and flora, and finally harm human life directly or indirectly. Cyanobacterial approach for the removal of this contaminant is an efficient tool for sustainable development and pollution control. Cyanobacteria are the primary consumers of food chain which absorbed complex toxic compounds from environments and convert them to simple nontoxic compounds which finally protect higher food chain consumer and eliminate risk of pollution. In addition, these organisms have capability to solve secondary pollution, as they can remediate radioactive compound, petroleum waste and degrade toxins from pesticides.

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