Water for Life

Strong endorsement by our leadership team coupled with a robust 94 percent approval by our SND voting-community caused the words "Water For Life" to become a living corporate stance on September 12, 2005.

Our Choice:

Water For Life is one that commits us to transform our prayer, our planning and our personal and communal actions over the next ten years. We do this in concert with the United Nations millennium goals for global sustainability.

Water: cohesive, transparent, life-giving.

These three qualities of water teach us to undertake our corporate stance in the company of collaborators, friends and associates of Notre Dame.

Please join with us and share in personal, local and global transforming actions to restore and protect the waters entrusted to us by God's Goodness.

India: Drought in Kala Dera made worse by Coca-Cola Bottling Plants.

Support our Missionaries… fast from Coca-Cola products!

Nearly a decade ago, Coca-Cola started its bottling plant in the northern village of Kala Dara despite a water report issued by the Central Ground Water Board that classified the groundwater of Kala Dera as already over-exploited. According to government figures, the water tables of Kala Dera fell nearly ten meters (over 30 feet) in just the first five years of Coca-Cola’s operations. Elsewhere, one of Coca-Cola’s largest plants located in the village of Plachimada in southern Kerala India has been shut down since March of 2004 due to similar water exploitation and resulting community opposition. The state government of Kerala has moved to seek compensation from Coca-Cola for the damages it has caused. For more information, visit: www.IndiaResource.org.