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Article: Indian village wants to close Coca-Cola plant.
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- Atlanta Journal-Constitution
- Article date:
- May 29, 2005
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May 29--In the holiest of Hindu cities, water is worshipped every day. To touch the Ganges River in Varanasi is to be blessed; to die on its banks and have your ashes scattered in the waves is to find eternal peace.
But Coca-Cola has found little peace at its plant in Mehdiganj, a village near Varanasi where life's essential elixir is turned into 600 bottles of soda pop a minute.
Some villagers want to close the bottling plant because they say Coke uses too much water, making wells go dry and crops suffer.
They've joined global anti-Coke activists whose campaign has already closed, if temporarily, one of 68 plants that make Coke products in India.
"Water is ...
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