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Article

9 Mar 2009

Author:
Amit Srivastava, India Resource Center

Coca-Cola Destroys Indian Villages, Despite Warning by Coca-Cola Study

Kala Dera is located in the desert state of Rajasthan...In 1998...a government agency, classified the groundwater in Kala Dera as overexploited...Yet two years later...Coca-Cola started its bottling plant in Kala Dera...the water tables in Kala Dera fell nearly 10 meters in just the first five years of Coca-Cola's operations!...The community of Kala Dera has challenged the Coca-Cola bottling plant... Responding to the media about shutting down the plant in Kala Dera, Coca-Cola India's CEO said, "Walking away is the easiest thing we can do. That's not going to help that community build sustainability."