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

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.

“We’re worried because we’re already being impacted by this extraction of 1,200 litres of water per second” by the brewery, he said. “It’s contradictory that while Constellation Brands has industrial amounts of water to make beer, the municipality of Zaragoza doesn’t have 100 litres [per second of water] of water to give people to drink or use in their homes.”

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Would Trump's wall solve this!?

What the hell.

What relevance to gaming is this?

The city could shut down the factory until water is abundant or force them to move the factory. From the article this is an issue for Mexico and not for Trump. Not the U.S. responsibility to solve Mexican self-inflicted water shortages.

Wrong thread buddy. Post this in Off-Topic forum, this is Games discussion.

I assume he meant to post this thread in off-topic.

This has now been moved to Off-Topic Discussion.

Sounds like the water shortages in India caused by Coca-Cola. Capitalism wins. No one should get mad because the corporation owns the land and Mexico is bad at regulating their water reservoir apparently. Ah how policies can make something evil okay.

Clearly capitalism is doing right by the people. /sarcasm

Honestly if a business is causing this sort of problem for a country's citizens their government is absolutely right to do something about it.

That's a shame.

@csward: "The city could shut down the factory until water is abundant or force them to move the factory. "

Whats the time frame for that?

If you live in a water shortage area, your water supply is typically rationed.

@sonicare: Not in Mexico. That's the place where no fucks are given to a lot of things.

Anyway Corona sucks.

Sounds like a Mexican problem. Why blame us?

Nestle is sucking the water out of California for pennies, but we don't blame the Swiss; we blame corrupt politicians and Nestle.

You want to keep your water? Don't use it for one of the most wasteful industries in the world: a good, "green" brewery uses about 3:1 ratio of water used:beer made. I think the Budweiser plant in Fairfield is almost 2:1, which is unheard of. I don't know off the top of my head, but in school I remember hearing that 7:1 is about the average.

Seriously though don't drink Corona, it's dingo piss made with adjuncts (non-malt) and hop extract...not even the real deal. And it comes in a clear bottle. Never drink beer that comes in a clear bottle. Barely tolerable, and that's with a lime in it.

Mexican beer isn't exactly good beer.....

Move the company to the US. Problem solved they get the water and we get jobs.

People like being paid and stuff in the US so never gonna work out long term for the company.