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Page 225 77,000 shares of common stock: The Coca-Cola Company, Proxy Statement, March 4, 2004; The Coca-Cola Company, “Historical Price Lookup,” http://ir.thecocacolacompany.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=94566&p=irol-stocklookup.
Page 226 $5,000 check to Corporate Campaign, Inc.: Note from B. Wardlaw to Ray Rogers, April 23, 2004.
Page 226 refusal to investigate in Colombia: Betsy Morris, “The Real Story: How Did Coca-Cola’s Management Go from First-Rate to Farcical in Six Short Years? Tommy the Barber Knows,” Fortune, May 17, 2004.
CHAPTER 9 . ALL THE WATER IN INDIA
Page 228 fecal coliform bacteria count of 600,000: “Up to Their Necks in It,” The Economist, July 17, 2008.
Page 228 toxic soup of heavy metals: “Hazardous Heavy Metals Polluting Ganga,” Times of India, June 4, 2009.
Page 228 “a cloudy brown soup of excrement”: “Up to Their Necks in It.”
Page 228 ambitious cleanup plan: Dipak Mishra, “Clean Ganga Water Still a Dream,” Times of India, March 22, 2010; Samanth Subramanian, “The Monumental Decline of a Great River,” MINT, September 1, 2009.
Page 228 Nearly half of those who bathe: “India’s Ganges River Brings Disease, Pollution; Believers Scarcely Notice,” Associated Press, May 9, 2002.
Page 229 “Lok Samiti follows”: Nandlal Master, interview by the author.
Page 230 The plant here dates back to 1995: Nandlal, interview by the author; Shira Wolf, “Thanda-Hearted Matlab: Coca-Cola in India,” University of Wisconsin College Year in India paper, 2003-2004.
Page 230 Coca-Cola India purchased the plant: Nandlal, interview by the author; Wolf, “Thanda-Hearted Matlab”; Independent Third Party Assessment of Coca-Cola Facilities in India, Project Report No. 2006WM21 (New Delhi: The Energy and Resources Institute, 2006), 219 (hereafter TERI report).
Page 230 clashing with the company: Nandlal, interview by the author.
Page 230 short-term contracts: Kalyan Ranjan, interview by the author.
Page 230 workers appealed to company management: Nandlal, interview by the author.
Page 230 “The first major problem”: Urmika Vishwakarma, interview by the author.
Page 230 water pooled by the side of the highway: Nantoo Banerjee, The Real Thing: Coke’s Bumpy Ride Through India (Kolkata, India: Frontpage, 2009), 79.
Page 231 “nothing would grow”: Nandlal and Vishwakarma, interviews by the author.
Page 231 water shortages in 2002: Shankkar Aiyar, “The Impact: Thirst Aid,” India Today, 2002; “Indian Economy: General Review,” Finance India, March 2003; “Drought May Undo Govt’s Plans for High GDP Growth,” Press Trust of India, July 25, 2004.
Page 231 one of ninety-seven wells that Lok Samiti says: R. Chandrika, “Decreasing Water Levels: Status of Water Table in Mehdiganj and Surrounding Villages, Varanasi, U.P. (August 2006),” Lok Samiti Varanasi.
Page 231 villagers staged their first rally: Nandlal, interview by the author; Mukesh Prabhan, president of Nagepur village committee, interview by the author.
Page 231 ordered Coke to clean up: Nandlal, interview by the author; Banerjee, 79.
Page 231 canal overflowed into his fish pond: Local farmer, interview by the author.
Page 232 Coke uses only 3 percent of the area’s groundwater: Ranjan, interview by the author.
Page 232 “We have never dispensed biosolids to farmers”: Press Trust of India, July 31, 2003.
Page 233 “since 2003, we no longer distribute biosolids”: “Coca-Cola India: Questions and Answers,” www.cokefacts.com/India/facts_in_qa.shtml.
Page 233 problem persisted for months: Banerjee, 79.
Page 233 15 million liters during June: TERI report, 206.
Page 233 seven-step process of purification: Sanjay Bansal, interview by the author.
Page 234 tank containing two ground fish: Bansal, interview by the author.
Page 234 a lot of good for his village: Dudh Nath Yadav, interview by the author.
Page 234 more than 150 people protesting: Ranjan, interview by the author.
Page 234 thousands of people at a time protesting: See, for example, India Resource Center, “Police Attack Coca-Cola Protest, over 350 Arrested,” press release, November 25, 2004;