Oil discharge in the Ecuador River brings emergency statement

A spill of oil in the north -the Ecuador’s west has transformed a black river, which caused the authorities to declare an environmental emergency on the “unprecedented” background and to order the residents to ratify drinking water, officials said. The discharge, thought, was caused when a landslide broke a major oil pipeline, transformed the black waters into a section of the Esmeraldas river, into the province of the same name. The Emergency Operations Committee in the Capital of Province, also called Esmeraldas, said the environmental emergency situation. Images