Wednesday, January 11, 2006

Shouldn't we care more about our Country -2

Do others worry more about our country than us?

There is a beautiful lake with a waterfall in the regions of Pachaimedu in Kerala which is the only source of water to about 10 villages surrounding the area. The Coca Cola (CC) company had bought the water source from the Kerala Government for a factory set up in that area.(Gee......I didn't know you could buy natural water sources). You know what happens next- The factory pumps up huge amounts of water. The villages do not have water even for drinking purposes. Plus CC sells its solid chemical waste to the farmers of these villages saying that they are fertilisers. The soil is totally, completely, utterly destroyed for cultivation purposes. Wow!! So next the villagers go to court. And guess who is arguing for the CC- the Kerala Govt. They lose in a single bench District Court and they go to a two bench High court and this goes on. Meanwhile the company continues using the water. This has been going on for seven years now.

The Unviersity of Michigan had entered into an agreement with Coca Cola for supplying coke to the university for some specific period(I'm not quite sure) in return for 14 million dollars. But now the students of the university have started boycotting the drink and the university was forced to cancel the contract. Their reason - the heartless and inhuman way in which Coca Cola dealt with the people of the villages in the Pachaimedu region in Kerala, India!!!

Hey wait.....isn't this our job???

1 Comments:

At 3:28 PM , Blogger Whoiscb said...

Paravallaye....ennada appa sonnadhellam Blogla ezhudharaya illa neeye newspaper padichuttu ezhudharaya?

 

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