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―Our new water recovery system is another example of our efforts to continuously improve our water use and stewardship. Treating and reusing the water we use in our manufacturing processes has the potential to significantly reduce our overall operational water use over the next few years,‖ Darshane said. Although developing these types of technologies requires major capital investment, being able to reuse water for non-product use means not having to procure as much water, which the company finds very attractive, he added. Beverage analysts have referred to this new system as potentially groundbreaking for the industry due to the large amount of water that could be saved. "There may be other neat H2O treatment systems out there in beverage, but what Coke has is innovation plus size and that‘s pretty profound," Robert Kuhn, president of sustainability consulting firm Kuhn Associates Management Advisors, was quoted as saying. ―Coca-Cola and Its Bottlers Aim for 20 Percent Water Reduction This Year‖, 01/08/<strong>2012</strong>, online at: http://www.ooskanews.com/daily-water-briefing/coca-cola-and-its-bottlers-aim-20-percent-water-reductionyear_23676 BACK TO TOP Page 93
U.S. Drought and Climate Change: Science Points to Link The drought that‘s turned most of the United States into a dessicated hotbox may be a symptom of climate change, a brutal blowback from carbon pollution. Climate scientists, who prefer to speak in terms of probabilities and trends rather than single events, are reluctant to point fingers at any one cause — but signs point to human influence making a natural dry spell unnaturally severe. ―In any single event, it‘s hard to really know if you‘re just seeing a natural variation or climate change,‖ cautioned climatologist Chris Funk of the University of California, Santa Barbara. With that caveat, Funk said when asked if human activity exacerbated the drought, ―Tentatively, the answer is yes. To some extent, it is.‖ Public sentiment has already linked the drought, which has turned much of the Great Plains and Midwest into disaster areas, wrecking crops and driving food prices dangerously upwards, to unnatural climate fluctuation. Belief in climate change is now at an all-time U.S. high, and while explaining the causes of any large weather pattern is always difficult, enough is known about climate to make some educated guesses. Funk‘s specialty is the dynamics of sea surface temperatures in the Indian Ocean and western Pacific Ocean. Over the last century, and in particular the last two decades, these rose by an average of 1.25 degrees Fahrenheit. Ocean temperature trends can be tricky to interpret, but there‘s little scientific disagreement about Indian Ocean warming: It‘s almost certainly man-made, a result of greenhouse gases trapping heat in Earth‘s atmosphere. 'When these patterns do materialize, they're materializing in a warming climate.' The consequences are significant. Heated air holds extra water, supercharging monsoon systems and producing events like 2010′s Pakistan floods. Water vapor is also a greenhouse gas itself, trapping heat and creating a feedback loop of local warming. Page 94
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