Americans' taste for Mexican beer sucking up water supply, mayor says

[Eugene]

Source: The Guardian

Americans' taste for Mexican beer sucking up water supply, mayor says

David Agren in Mexico City
Thursday 30 June 2016 17.02 BST

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 Martínez Sánchez of the municipality of Zaragoza, wrote in single-sentence letter to Coahuila state governor Rubén Moreira.

Zaragoza is currently suffering through water shortages so severe “there’s barely a drop of water when you open the tap”, Martínez 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 Martínez 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.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/30/americans-beer-corona-mexico-water-crisis

[underpants]

1. This really is becoming like "Idiocracy"

Seriously close

[SoLeftIAmRight]

2. AIR WATER FOOD - we must get these things right

and we are not even close

[Nihil]

3. Unbelievably stupid.

Actually, belay that: it is only far too believably stupid ...