Coca-Cola or clean water?Local residents of Kerala, India, are winning a battle against Coca-Cola India for clean ground water and soil, after months of collaboration with a BBC BBC in full British Broadcasting Corp. Publicly financed broadcasting system in Britain. A private company at its founding in 1922, it was replaced by a public corporation under royal charter in 1927. investigative reporter. "The Kerala high court High Court of Kerala (Hindi: केरल उच्च न्यायालय) is the highest court in the Indian state of Kerala and in the Union Territory of Lakshadweep. has now ruled that the company must find alternative water sources," reports the BBC's John Waite John Waite (born John Charles Waite, 4 July 1952, Lancaster, Lancashire, England) is a rock singer. He is best known as the lead vocalist for the bands The Babys and Bad English, and as a solo artist. , "and only extract amounts of water from its Kerala plant equivalent to those used by any other landowner with 34 acres." Since the plant opened, spring water in the area is chalky and unhealthy for drinking, even after boiling. Area farmers found that their soil is contaminated contaminated, v 1. made radioactive by the addition of small quantities of radioactive material. 2. made contaminated by adding infective or radiographic materials. 3. an infective surface or object. with high levels of cadmium and lead, after Coca-Cola donated manufacturing waste as a "fertilizer" to local farms. Coca-Cola's rapid extraction of water is quickly depleting Kerala's deep aquifer aquifer (ăk`wĭfər): see artesian well. aquifer In hydrology, a rock layer or sequence that contains water and releases it in appreciable amounts. . The company uses the water for Coke, other carbonated beverages and branded bottled water. Coca-Cola India president Sanjeev Gupta said the issue is "about being a positive contributor to the environment." The company is appealing the Kerala court ruling. |
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