‘This is what I was born for': Colombian town running dry takes on Coca-Cola subsidiary and wins

‘This is what I was born for': Colombian town running dry takes on Coca-Cola subsidiary and wins

A Coca-Cola bottling subsidiary in La Calera, near Bogotá, kept drawing water from local springs to bottle and sell across Colombia, while residents went for days each month without water during a punishing drought. That frustrating contrast set off a local organizing push that ended in a rare win for people fighting to protect community water supplies, as the Guardian reported. What happened? Bogotá depends heavily on the Chingaza region for dr…