The problem is that the community people might die of hunger because their farmlands have been polluted which will kill the crops and the river where these community people get drinking water is also polluted, killing aquatic animals and making the river unfriendly for fishing. I feel that the government are not the problem but our heads that represent us are the snakes and vipers.
The main occupation of people in this area is fishing and farming. Some of them had to migrate to urban areas to survive while others took to crime. I will continue to blame the government. You don't need to give community leaders money to distribute. Clean up the mess, give the people an alternative source of income by building industries, and develop infrastructure. Financial benefits should be paid directly to the people after identity verification.
The government don't feel the direct impact of such negligence as much as the community leaders does and so, the blame is going to be towards the community leaders who take up bribe only to allow Thier people suffer and die from the diseases some of them get from drinking some of these unhygienic water.
Most areas that serves as host community to big multi national oil companies face these issues of poor access to good water supply due to spillages of the oil resources. The resident of the affected community are usually andicapped because by the collaboration of the community leaders and the government to only focus on getting the resources while neglecting proper sorting out of the welfare of the host of such companies, you can't really do much but have to cope with the bad water or migrate to a better environment that's not affected.