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We set up this blog to discuss issues surrounding universal access to safe, physically accessible, sufficient and affordable clean water. These issues include, but are not limited to: 1) whether access to clean water should be enshrined as a fundamental human right; 2) how to respond to the increasingly prevalent treatment of water as a commodity rather than a public good (corporate social responsibility and water); 3) clean water as global health issue; 4) clean water as a poverty issue; 5) clean water as a global security issue; 6) clean water as a gender issue.

Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Business responses to world water shortages

GE has announced plans to cut its own water consumption by 20% by 2012, citing anticipated rising costs in water as well as environmental concerns. DuPont, the US chemicals group, has set itself a target of a 30% reduction in water consumption by 2015, while Coca-Cola has said it has achieved a cut of almost 20% since 2003.

A potentially promising start, but what industrial activities carried out by companies such as these (e.g. extractive, manufacturing, chemical) have led to groundwater contamination?

See: http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/may/29/generalelectric.greenbusiness
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