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Artigo

3 Fev 2006

Author:
Lok Samiti (India), National Alliance of People's Movements (India), India Resource Center

Community Rallies to Shut Down Coca-Cola in India - Demand Closure of Bottling Plant Before Summer to Ease Water Scarcity

Over 500 hundred community members and their supporters marched to the Coca-Cola bottling plant in Mehdiganj, near the holy city of Varanasi, in northern India today. The protesters are demanding that the Coca-Cola bottling plant be shut down immediately because it is causing severe water shortages - by extracting too much water and polluting the groundwater in the area.