Coke accused of wasting water

While you’re correct from a technical aspect, a loss of potable water is something different. For example, there is currently an issue in Baton Rouge of industrial plants pulling so much ground water that it’s causing saltwater incursion from the south. If it continues at this rate, the city will need to build a filtration plant in order to process river water instead of using the almost immediately potable water from our water table.

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There is the same amount of water on this Earth today that there was millions of years ago

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No......some of it is in space......astronaut's piss is dumped in space.

The whole water thing is dumb as frick, at least domestically and in developed countries. Desalination plants already exist in 120 countries in the world. There are what ... 196-206 countries on Earth?

The more scarce freshwater becomes, the more economically viable it is to open desalination plants, which leads to more people being able to use the ocean as a fresh water resource.

Now, should private companies be in charge of those plants once freshwater becomes terrifyingly scarce? Probably not.

But this idea that a country is absolutely fricked if they run out of freshwater is dumb as frick, particularly if that country is already a developed country.

Doesn’t America already have like 25% of the worlds fresh water or something ridiculous?

The only people natural freshwater is truly crucial for long term is people living in North Africa or African countries that border the Sahara.

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there is currently an issue in Baton Rouge of industrial plants pulling so much ground water that it’s causing saltwater incursion from the south. If it continues at this rate, the city will need to build a filtration plant in order to process river water instead of using the almost immediately potable water from our water table.

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Duh, how about the industries pulling their own river water? If it needs filtering, let them pay for it.

Maybe I'm missing something here.

Stop farming CA's central valley.

uh, all youre suggesting is drawing portable water from another source. It doesn't add or lessen the amount available????

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While you’re correct from a technical aspect, a loss of potable water is something different. For example, there is currently an issue in Baton Rouge of industrial plants pulling so much ground water that it’s causing saltwater incursion from the south. If it continues at this rate, the city will need to build a filtration plant in order to process river water instead of using the almost immediately potable water from our water table.

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It's so dumb that they are using the aquifer water and not the Mississippi River.

You're comparing sources and qualities of water. The concept being debated is a company's "water footprint" which would not change under your example.

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Depends on your definition of the term, I suppose. The article doesn’t give enough information to establish one.

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Probably because Coke is simply using the municipal water of everywhere they have their bottling facilities, which likely accounts for every type of source of potable water in the world.