The Justice

The elimination of Dasani bottled water is an important first step in defending the environment. However, Coca-Cola is also guilty of many other environmental abuses, including overexploitation of water resources in drought-prone areas of India and elsewhere.

There have been more than 45 colleges and universities, mostly in the U.S., that have removed Coke products from campus because of human rights, labor and environmental abuses -- four colleges and a school district in Massachusetts.

This has got to be the stupidest editorial (and response comment) I've read in a long time. Lew, If you don't want to drink coke products, DON'T do it. But don't force other to on your moral account. Everyone has the right to make up their own mind on whether to buy coke or not. Plus, only 10 short years ago there was the big push to get pepsi off campus cause they were evil. Now it's return to pepsi get rid of coke. It's just a big cycle with students who arragantly think of themselves as morally superior trying to impose their morality on others (sounds like religion to me).

As for the Editorial, say what you will about where Dasani water comes from, it's still much safer to drink than tap water. Even if tap water is purified by a town it still has to travel through many pipes to get to your tap. There's no telling what the pipes are made of (lead?) or if there's a leak into a pipe contaminating the water or if the tap you drink form is even clean. Would you really want to drink from a tap in a Brandeis bathroom? How about all those people in a Massachusetts town recently who got hospitalized because their town accidently overdosed the water the cleaning chemical? With bottled water you at least know it was clean when it was bottled and the bottles were cleaned and sealed. And if something goes wrong with the water you have someone to hold accountable (coke in this case). Where as if something goes wrong with your free tap water...well go ahead try to get a town/city to own up to the mistake or pay your medical costs.