Coca Cola is a global business. It has bottling factories all over the world so that they can be close to their markets. Coca Cola has 52 bottling factories just in India which has resulted in a dramatic environmental impact. The bottling factories all use a lot of India's water supplies, which for the villages that they are built in, has meant they are suffering a drought. Coca Cola's continuous use of their water supplies means that there is not enough water for the locals. In one village in India, Plachimada, the lack of groundwater had became so serious that the villagers had to rely on a water delivery sent in trucks by the government. After several large scale protests, the government ordered the company to shut down its $25 million factory.
As well as the issue of using up water around the villages, Coca Cola has also been accused by the Central Pollution Control Board of India of giving away 'sludge' containing high levels of cadmium, lead and chromium to local farmers and free fertiliser.
For the full details of this case and to see Coca Cola's response to these accusations, see the link below:
http://environment.about.com/od/waterpollution/a/groundwater_ind.htm
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