Narmada Waters to Fuel Coke’s Bottling Plant
Published on by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network in Business
Water Sourced from the Narmada River Has Been Allocated to Coca Cola to Manufacture Soft-drinks at the Company's Crore Bottling Plant
The state government has already allotted 1.85 lakh square meters of land to Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages Pvt Ltd (HCCBPL), the largest bottling partner of Coca-Cola Company in India. This plant will manufacture soft-drinks like Coke, Sprite, Fanta and Thumbs Up within an industrial cluster which is a no-effluent zone.
"The plant will be using about three Million Litres per Day (MLD) of water sourced from the Narmada canal. This is little less than the five MLD that the company had applied for," a senior state government official told The Indian Express.
"The requirement of Coca Cola is little more than those of the industries that are currently operating at Sanand. However, their plant will have zero-effluent discharge," the official said adding that requisite permission from the Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB) has also been taken for the project.
This will be the company's second plant in Gujarat after Goblej plant in Kheda district. The plant at Goblej is the second largest plant of HCCBPLin the country having about six lines that produces juice drinks, sparkling beverages and packaged drinking water. The company has invested over Rs 500 crore in this plant at Kheda, Gujarat.
Meanwhile, the upcoming plant at Sanand is expected to produce 450 kilo litres of effluent discharge per day, stated government sources said. A questionnaire sent to the company last week about how the company plans to source the water and how it will handle the effluents generated at the plant did not evoke any response.
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