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Plachimada Fought Against Coca-Cola Planet
In Vandana Shiva reading she disuses how the residents of Plachimada fought against the Coca-Cola Planet in their community, to help save the water supply and crops. On March 2000 Coca-Cola was granted permission “ to produce 1,224,000 of Coca-Cola, Fanta, Sprite, Limca, Thums Up, Kinley Soda, and Maaza” in Plachimada . In addition, they were given a license to install a motor to extract water. However, To manufacture millions of bottles of soft drinks the started “ to illegally extract million of clean water from more than 6 bore wells”(412). The water level began to decline from “150 to 500 feet”. This affected the people in the locally community because they were stealing and polluting their water supply. Before the waste was being disposed
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