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Page 251 half of Rajasthan is fed by rivers: M.S. Rathore, Institute for Development Studies, Jaipur, interview by the author.
Page 251 built a bottling plant here: TERI report, 138.
Page 251 “Rajasthan is an important market”: Ranjan, interview by the author.
Page 251 “I have been on roads”: Sunil Sharma, interview by the author.
Page 252 less than 1 percent of water use: Ranjan, interview by the author.
Page 252 The system can recharge 1.3 million liters: Ranjan and Sharma, interviews by the author.
Page 253 upgraded Kala Dera’s general hospital: “Coca-Cola India Helps to Restore Sarai Bawari,” Hindustan Times, August 20, 2005.
Page 253 methods that use 70 percent less water: Ranjan, interview by the author; farmers at Farm Education Center, interviews by the author.
Page 253 protesters are “day laborers”: Farmer and school principal, Kala Dera, interviews by the author.
Page 254 manipulating public opinion: Srivastava, interview by the author.
Page 254 loan of 150,000 rupees . . . for a new 225-foot bore well: Mahesh Yogi, interview by the author.
Page 255 every one of them raises a hand: Farmers, Kala Dera, interviews by the author.
Page 255 has owned this farm for five generations: Rameshwar Prasad Kuri, interview by the author.
Page 255 water level has gone down eight to ten feet a year: Kuri, interview by the author; this is consistent with data from India’s Central Ground Water Department showing a decrease of 3.13 meters (10 feet) post-monsoon to 5.83 meters (19 feet) pre-monsoon in Kala Dera between 2007 and 2008, and 22 meters (73 feet) overall in the nine years between 2000 and 2009.
Page 256 two thousand people came to see Indian environmentalist Medha Patkar: “Protest March Against Coca-Cola Plant in Rajasthan,” Indo-Asian News Service, September 25, 2004.
Page 256 local people had the right to groundwater: Sawai Singh, interview by the author.
Page 256 three hundred rainwater-harvesting structures: The Coca-Cola Company, “The Coca-Cola Company Pledges to Replace the Water It Uses in Its Beverages and Their Production,” June 5, 2007.
Page 257 able to recharge 46,933 cubic meters per year: Coca-Cola India, “RWH Projects at Various Locations,” document provided by Kalyan Ranjan.
Page 257 twenty-eight feet to nineteen feet belowground: Ranjan, interview by the author.
Page 257 level at the plant was eighty feet belowground: Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages Private Limited ground water report, Annexure and Table A.
Page 257 average rainfall of 1,000 millimeters a year: Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages Private Limited ground water report, Table A.
Page 257 half of the rain fell on one day: Nandlal and other activists, interviews by the author.
Page 257 more than ten feet between 2007 and 2008: Central Ground Water Department, Government of India.
Page 257 half of the prior year’s total: Rathore, interview by the author.
Page 258 two or three rainy days total . . . recharging seventeen times: Rathore, interview by the author.
Page 258 groundwater gauge called a piezometer: Ranjan, interview by the author.
Page 258 lists Hindustan Coca-Cola among its clients: Integrated Geo Instruments & Services client list, http://www.igisindia.com/clientele_nongovt.htm.
Page 258 a representative confirms . . . $1,800 each: E-mail from Madhusudan Integrated Geo Instruments & Services to the author, April 10, 2010.
Page 259 $10 million it recently bequeathed: The Coca-Cola Company, “Local and Regional Foundations,” http://www.thecoca-colacompany.com/citizenship/foundation_local.html.
CHAPTER 10 . THE CASE AGAINST “KILLER COKE”
Page 260 “The Coca-Cola Company”: Recording of Killer Coke address to UMass Radical Student Union, April 28, 2004, http://www.personal.kent.edu/~nsolinsk/.
Page 261 child labor in sugarcane plantations: Human Rights Watch, Turning a Blind Eye: Hazardous Child Labor in El Salvador’s Sugarcane Cultivation, vol. 16, no. 2(B), June 9, 2004. For Coke’s response to the allegations