Even softer drink!
World's largest beverage company Coca-Cola recently entered into a fresh joint investment of US $ 12.7 million with United States Agency for International Development (USAID) as a part of their global water partnership, the Water and Development Alliance (WADA). With this new investment USAID and the Coca-Cola Company will have committed a total of US $ 28.1 million since 2005 to support 32 projects ensuring supply of safe drinking water and access to basic sanitation in 22 countries worldwide, Africa to Asia. It may be mentioned here that more than one billion people live without access to safe drinking water and 2.6 with no access to basic sanitation. The WADA established by USAID and the Coca-Cola Company is committed to accomplishing lasting and sustainable solutions to global water challenges.
The Coca-Cola Company and the USAID deserves appreciation for their initiative to help solve safe drinking water problem around the globe. We are looking forward to find a part of the above initiative being implemented in areas of Bangladesh where scarcity of safe drinking water has become chronic and acute.
Bangladesh is already experiencing an acute shortage of drinking water as her ground water level has drastically fallen and surface water sources are getting dry to drier due to the adverse impact of climate change.
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