Beyond Coca-Cola: Colombia’s Government Does Not Know How Much Industries Pay to Use Water · Global Voices

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A bill sparked a discussion that still does not stop on the price of water in Colombia. It was published a year ago by the Vorágine portal and said that in 2016 Coca-Cola had paid 607,501 pesos (about 217 dollars of the time) for having collected 56 million liters of water from the mountains of the town of La Calera, on the outskirts of Bogotá, to sell it in bottle. National and local authorities agree that it is a small price, even if it is wha…