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Coca-Cola Sucks Wells Dry in in Chiapas, Forcing Residents to Buy Water

  • September 18, 2017

The wells are drying up in Chiapas, Mexico, and indigenous residents are scrambling for water, sometimes having to walk two hours a day for it — or buy it, Salon reports. While a burgeoning population has contributed to the water shortage, the biggest consumer is Coca-Cola, which extracts 1.08 million liters of water a day from the local watershed. Meanwhile only 1 in 3 residents has running water. This is just another chapter in the ongoing saga of how giant soda companies like Coke...