WA Water Minister Simone McGurk has announced Coca-Cola will voluntarily cease extracting water for bottling from a bore in the Perth hills, to allow for the aquifer replenishment.`
WA water minister Simone McGurk reveals Coca-Cola will pause groundwater extraction from a bore in the Perth hills to allow for aquifer replenishment.WA Water Minister Simone McGurk has announced Coca-Cola will voluntarily cease extracting water for bottling from a bore in the Perth hills, to allow for the aquifer replenishment.
"Even they acknowledge that it is starting to have an impact on their monitoring of their particular extraction area." "But Coca-Cola has been doing its own monitoring, and has started to supply some of that data to the Department of Water and Environmental Regulation. She said independent monitoring, rather than relying on companies to provide metering data, would be put in place.
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