NEWS: Coca-Cola Plans to Conserve Water

I love this. They spend $20 million on funding research, then probably $200 million in marketing to let everyone know they're doing the research.

Not at all...quite the opposite actually, which just shows how wide the profit margin is on this garbage.

Food costs aside, I trust plants more than I trust chemists.

Well, there's always Dasani.

Yup. I recall a BBC report from about five years ago which stated that Turkey was converting oil tankers to carry water--which quite simply illustrates that water is becoming more valuable than oil.

None of the articles I saw really went into detail... I'm not clear if they're just giving the cash to the WWF or developing a specific program with them for to preserve 7 rivers around the world, probably something in between. The Coke press release also said that they're urging sugar producers to "conserve water", but I doubt they're doing much more than saying it.

That's what I figured.
They're probably just trying to make themselves look good in the eyes of the public.

Yeah, greenwashing seems to be the topic of the day. (The same article was on truthout.)

This is why I get all my coke from mexico.

Yes, I am still talking about the drink.

Go anaerobic, use less water.

It's like carbon offset credits...

It makes as much sense as me donating to the American Cancer Society or the American Lung Association to offset the damage I do to my body when I smoke. Cancer offset credits, anyone?

Well .... at least they are doing something .... which is a lot more than doing nothing.

I'm not sure how Fanta can be called Nazi?
It just happened to be developed during the Nazi reign (not by the Nazis)
(suprisingly, not all Germans were Nazis)

Should we stop using Gerry cans as they came from the Nazi era?
Stop using jet engines?

"Paris Hilton flew into Sydney today on plane fitted with Nazi era axial flow engines"

rofl!!!
Love it, also, should we all stop admiring Volkswagon Beetles, and they really ARE nazi?...

Created by Ferdinand Porsche, at the behest of his good friend Adolf Hitler, using modified, but stolen designs, from an Austrian jew called Hans Ledwinka, who owned the Tatra car manufacturing company.
He was later wrongly inprisoned for collaborating (though he wasn`t).

I don't think there's anything wrong with fanta, I was just poking fun at a pretty generic soda that is now primarily marketed to Latin and Urban communities (at least here in the states). I think it's funny that despite the current image it was created due to Nazi shipping restrictions when the coke factory couldn't get enough cola syrup and they had to create something new.

Hey, you and your "science" can just get the HELL out of here!!!

"Nazi super-soda"

That is "Nazi" used as an adjective - to describe the super-soda.

Not Big.
Not Clever.
Not Funny.

Use your journalistic efforts to expose M.A.N and DeGussa - for bonus points you can link them to Saddam Hussein.

Not a good enough joke for me to even bother defending it days after the fact. victory is yours brett.

but I certainly don't claim to be any kind of investigative journalist... I stick to the stuff I know... like soda, heavy metal, and alcohol powder.

Coke Zero rocks.

I do my part to return the water in Coke products back to nature by pissing on my neighbor's lawn.

Mexican Coke
You can also get Dr Pepper made with cane sugar.