Food and drink giants vow to cut water use

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New initiative sees 21 leading food and drink manufacturers embrace water saving best practices

Over 20 of the UK's largest food and drink manufacturers, including Britvic, Cadbury Schweppes, GlaxoSmithKline and Nestlé, have committed to embrace new water efficiency measures designed to cut their...

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