Municipality near the US border says brewery that makes Corona, Modelo and other beers is using so much water from wells that region is becoming bone dry A brewery satisfying Americans thirst for Mexican beers such as Corona is sucking so much water from wells in an arid region near the US border that it has left one municipality bone dry, according to a local mayor. WE HAVE NO WATER FOR HUMAN CONSUMPTION, Mayor Leoncio Martnez Snchez of the municipality of Zaragoza, wrote in single-sentence letter to Coahuila state governor Rubn Moreira. Zaragoza is currently suffering through water shortages so severe theres barely a drop of water when you open the tap, Martnez told the Guardian. A nearby brewery run by the US firm Constellation Brands currently draws water from wells drilled to a depth of 500 metres, and Martnez said that plans to increase production at the plant would aggravate the current situation, especially as the federal government ramps up plans for fracking in northern Mexico. Were worried because were already being impacted by this extraction of 1,200 litres of water per second by the brewery, he said. Its contradictory that while Constellation Brands has industrial amounts of water to make beer, the municipality of Zaragoza doesnt have 100 litres [per second of water] of water to give people to drink or use in their homes. The brewery which sits in the municipality of Nava, 45 kilometres south of the US border at Eagle Pass, Texas makes Corona and other brands of beer such as Modelo for export to the United States. Constellation Brands, which bought the plant in 2013, subsequently announced a $2.27bn investment to expand the facility and a glass factory, saying it would churn out 20m bottles of beer per day by the end of 2017. Martnez says the deep wells supplying the brewery are located approximately 20 kilometres from the municipal seat and have caused water supply problems in Zaragoza since being drilled a decade ago. [The government] gave them this land and these wells on a silver platter, he said. Constellation Brands said in 2014 that the Nava brewery would implement water-conservation practices and recycle 30% of the water it uses. The expanded brewery would also create 2,500 jobs, the company said. Source: http://allofbeer.com/americans-taste-for-mexican-beer-sucking-up-water-supply-mayor-says/ from https://allofbeer.wordpress.com/2018/05/24/americans-taste-for-mexican-beer-sucking-up-water-supply-mayor-says/
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