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Originally Posted by kellychaos
Jeanette you seem to be prejudiced but in an unconscious yet caring way ... i.e. you mean well. It's like AChimp said "India is NOT a third world country." I may be reading this the wrong way but you seem to be under the misconception that India is a hapless victim of corporatization that can't take care of themselves. I think that you're underestimating them and that that article is a politically slanted piece of rubbish with an obvious political agenda.
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No, I don't underestimate India. I think they can take care of it. I just posted it on here because it looked interesting.
As for balance, what about this?
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Coca-Cola denies responsibility for all this. In a statement from its headquarters in Atlanta, it said: "We would like to emphasise that, to the best of our knowledge, these allegations made against the plant in Kerala are untrue.
"In fact, we believe that the allegations are politically motivated. The plant concerned has not drained the aquifers and uses only six bore wells. In fact, the local villages receive tankers of free water supplies each day from the plant to supplement their existing water sources." And, it said, the company was establishing an elaborate system for rainwater harvesting.
The real culprit, the company says, is a reduction in rainfall in the area - from 1,213 mm in 2000, to 1,147mm in 2001 and just 670mm in 2002. It quotes India's National Geophysical Research Institute in Hyderabad as saying: "There is no field evidence of overexploitation of the groundwater reserves in the plant area."
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