COCA - COLA

• There was an issue in recent years with Coca-Cola, when they moved into a city in Mexico and began taking up large quantity’s of water
• How much of cola production was generated in high stress water areas?

  39% of production volume
• What were some of the impacts on people due to the extreme Coca-Cola water usage?

  Families were relying on rainwater, weren’t able to bathe ,or drink freshwater
• Southern Mexico is one of the worlds largest Coca-Cola consumers
• The Coca-Cola plant in south Mexico extracts 110 million gallons of water per year
• What illnesses have increased due to the presence of the Coca-Cola plant in S Mexico?

  Large spike in diabetes in the region, as people are drinking lots of coke and barely any water
• Mexico has a new 2030 water strategy, where they make use grey water, and aim to replenish water taken from natural resources