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Anti-Coca-Cola Agitation Picks up in Kaladera, Rajasthan [India]
Farmers from...about thirty villages hold Coca-Cola primarily responsible for declining ground water levels in the region and the resultant harm to local agriculture...A Coca-Cola representative, Sunil Sharma, admitted to this reporter that the plant used about 0.15 mcm (million cubic meters) of water last year, but claimed that Coca-Cola has also been regenerating, through 19 shafts in Kaladera, even more ground water than it extracts. He also argued that the fall had been more drastic elsewhere. [also refers to PepsiCo]