{"id":59512,"date":"2015-06-15T12:00:54","date_gmt":"2015-06-15T11:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=59512"},"modified":"2015-06-12T13:36:58","modified_gmt":"2015-06-12T12:36:58","slug":"coca-cola-slowly-deprives-30000-people-of-water-in-el-salvador","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2015\/06\/coca-cola-slowly-deprives-30000-people-of-water-in-el-salvador\/","title":{"rendered":"Coca-Cola Slowly Deprives 30,000 People of Water in El Salvador"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The main and only source of water for thousands of Salvadorans is in peril.<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_59516\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/cocacola_crop1433932023026.jpg_1718483346.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-59516\" class=\"size-full wp-image-59516\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/cocacola_crop1433932023026.jpg_1718483346.jpg\" alt=\"The municipality of Nejapa suffers from water scarcity and contamination. | Photo: Creative Commons\" width=\"600\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/cocacola_crop1433932023026.jpg_1718483346.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/cocacola_crop1433932023026.jpg_1718483346-300x170.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-59516\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The municipality of Nejapa suffers from water scarcity and contamination. | Photo: Creative Commons<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>10 Jun 2015 &#8211; <\/em>Residents from a Salvadoran municipality have seen a gradual depletion and contamination of their main and only water source since multinational corporations like Coca-Cola started operations there, activists have denounced.<\/p>\n<p>The municipality of Nejapa, in northern El Salvador, is home to almost 30,000 thousand people who depend on its river San Antonio to satisfy daily activities from hydration and bathing to washing clothes and cattle farming.<\/p>\n<p>Residents complain that since multinational corporations Coca-Cola, Jumex and Agua Cristal have been using industrial wells to exploit and rob most of the water source, there has been a significant decrease in water supply.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c&#8221;It is regrettable that in a municipality rich in water there are still entire communities that lack this vital liquid,&#8221; said Roxana Brizuela, a health advocate and Nejapa resident.<\/p>\n<p>Brizuela explained that 10 years ago people enjoyed full access to water, which Nejapa natives are now unable to drink because of industrial contamination. Local residents say the water kills their animals and sickens their stomachs.<\/p>\n<p>The impact of the Nejapa\u2019s water exploitation has led many local communities to support a pending law called the Water Act that could protect this vital resource.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis way companies wouldn\u2019t come and take our water without anyone saying anything, because they are only interested in selling water,\u201d affirmed Brizuela. \u201cThey don\u2019t care about the people who really need it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to Carlos Flores, from the Water Forum, right-wing politicians are opposing the law because it is not in their interest.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat would mean that what\u2019s happening here won\u2019t happen again because there will be someone who thinks about the water \u2026 and will prevent things like these to happen,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.telesurtv.net\/english\/news\/Coca-Cola-Slowly-Deprives-30000-People-of-Water-in-El-Salvador-20150610-0074.html\" >Go to Original \u2013 telesurtv.net<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The main and only source of water for thousands of Salvadorans is in peril.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latin-america-and-the-caribbean"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}