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22 Mar 2010

Author:
GreenBiz Staff

World Water Day Brings More Pledges from Dole, Coca-Cola, UL

...as World Water Day progressed even more firms made commitments and unveiled projects focused on water scarcity and water quality...Coca-Cola...has pledged an additional $12.7 million to the Water and Development Alliance (WADA), which will go toward water projects in Angola, Burundi, Ghana, Malawi, Mozambique, Senegal, South Africa, and Tanzania...Dole today unveiled a new packing process from its Costa Rican banana operations that will cut water used by those sites by as much as 80 percent...The innovation, spearheaded by Standard Fruit de Costa Rica, would save the industry 60 million cubic meters of water per year...Underwriters Laboratories has created a water consumption calculator to help individuals measure and find ways to reduce the amount of water they use in the kitchen, bath, laundry room and lawn. Veolia Water also targeted the consumer market, with its list of five ways to lower water use...Dow Chemical also made two announcements on World Water Day...