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REPORT: Venezuela’s Water Is Turning BLACK As Intermittent Power Outages Threaten Water Supply

Emily Zanotti

Venezuela’s power grid troubles continue, and now, according to videos appearing on social media, citizens in one state of the poverty ravaged country are experiencing new troubles: tap water contaminated with what looks like crude oil.

The Daily Mail reports that “Venezuelans have woken up to find their tap water running black” in the country’s state of Carabobo, and black-tinged water is running out of faucets and sitting in toilets and bathtubs.

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