Those that can afford to buy a drink can just buy the bottled water that Coca-Cola (and Pepsi) sell under various brands throughout the "third world".

> I'd rather drink a can of diet coke with aspartame in it than tap water with chlorine in it or bottled water with microplastics in it.

Chlorine is easily removed, and you can be certain that there are microplastics in your Diet Coke.