Notice to Coke: The Supreme Court (SC), on May 6, 2005, issued a notice to multinational soft drinks company Coca-Cola on a plea of Kerala's Perumatty grama panchayat, which sought an order to stop Coca-Cola from drawing 0.5 million litres of groundwater daily for its Plachimada bottling unit. The permission to draw the groundwater was recently granted by Kerala High Court (HC) (see Down To Earth ,