Upset over HC order on Cola majors, people stand in knee deep water


Tirunelveli, Mar 2 (PTI): Upset over the Madras High Court order allowing Pepsi and Coca Cola to draw water from the Thamirabarani river for their bottling plants in this district for manufacturing soft drinks, a large number or persons today stood in knee deep water in the river to express their ire.

They also protested against the "laxity" on the part of the authorities in handling the case.

The protesters also shouted slogans against the state government for not taking necessary steps to prevent the carbonated water companies from drawing water from Thamirabharani, when the farmers in the state were facing acute water shortage for their farming activities.

The High Court today allowed the Cola majors to draw water from the Thamirabarani river for their bottling plants in Tirunelveli district for manufacturing soft drinks besides packaged drinking water.

The Court had in November last year banned the firms from drawing water from the river.

The soft drinks companies sought a direction on lifting the ban on the ground that they were using only the surplus water in the river.

The order has come even as a call by the Traders Federation in Tamil Nadu to ban sales of Coca Cola and Pepsi soft drinks came into effect yesterday with its President A M Vikrama Raja declaring drinks as 'toxic' for consumption.

  

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  • Af,,, Mangalore

    Fri, Mar 03 2017

    karnataka govt is planning introduce coconut water in all theaters and stoping cola and pepsi sale,

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  • Jossey Saldanha, Mumbai

    Thu, Mar 02 2017

    Cola majors can afford Mineral Water ...

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  • Jossey Saldanha, Mumbai

    Thu, Mar 02 2017

    The price we are paying for Coke & Pepsi, they can afford to buy bottled mineral water for their Plant ...

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  • Nazeer husain, Jeddah saudi arabia

    Thu, Mar 02 2017

    A narrow local business intrest who cant face the healthy competition. Multinationals atleast follow food safety standards where the local manufacurer never follow even a single food safety direction. Why not water scarcity never affected liquor production in the state.just for coke n pepsi.......

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  • Dr Mohan Prabhu, LL.D, QC, Mangalore (Kankanady)/Ottawa, Canada

    Thu, Mar 02 2017

    This is a regrettable decision Allowing multinationals to drain the river of its water to satisfy their greed is lamentable. We have a similar case in Ontario where Nestle is drawing water from the river/lake at a ridiculously low rate, a few pennies for a trillion litres! I hope the Tamillnadu government if it has any sense, will charge rates equal to the selling price of the soft drinks and set aside that revenue for humanitarian purposes.

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