https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/dec/01/sicilians-take-aim-at-oil-monster-they-blame-for-childrens-birth-defects

"The experts’ study concluded in 2015 that the sea around Gela was so polluted that it was “technically incorrect to talk about the toxic contamination of the water”.

“The toxic contaminant should be less than, in this case, the water,” they wrote. “Gela seems to be the opposite: it is the water that is the contaminant of the toxic substance.”"