Unacceptable doses of pesticides? You mean like the water in India?
Yea I think they're probably *far* safer than drinking from the local well.
In India, people drink Coke and Pepsi because they assume the water in them is safe to drink, as opposed to other water sources.
Bottled water is always suspect because you can never be sure if someone has pumped dirty water into a fancy bottle. But it's pretty hard to make counterfeit Coke. If the companies don't make a safe product, they should be off the market.
Nope, no pesticides in that water. Just rotting corpses.
I think part of the complaints in India are also about Coca-Cola taking up local water supplies from scarce areas but selling the water other places and dumping stuff in it, not sure how true that is, and you're right their water has to be pretty bad to begin with.
Exactly -- the colas use groundwater that is polluted, they may be slightly safer than those, but not much.