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How Ford is motoring ahead with a water scarcity strategy
Posted by BusinessGreen: Matthias Krause on June 24th, 2014
BusinessGreen: For many companies, the cost of water—compared to the overall cost of production—hardly makes a blip on the radar screen. Yet clean water, or lack thereof, can cause a whole factory to suddenly have to shut down or, even worse, lead to a company losing its social license. In mid-June, Coca-Cola had to learn that the hard way when one of its bottling plants in India got shut down by the authorities because it was extracting too much groundwater. “The price of the water is not significant at the moment,...