"This agreement moves beyond the vague promises of water conservation that many corporations claim to support," said Julie Goodridge, CEO of NorthStar Asset Management, a socially responsible company that helped Pepsi develop its new resolution on water. "It fully commits the company to respecting the right to sufficient clean water, as well as individuals' rights to be involved in the development of processes that extract water from their communities."..."
The UN estimates that currently a billion people in the developing world, mainly poor and marginalized communities, lack access to water and that figure is projected to grow to two out of three people in the near future," writes Mark Hays of Corporate Accountability International....
