Big Alcohol’s Water Footprint in Mexico: Beer Production Fuels Water, Climate Crisis

Mexico is facing a water crisis with northern parts of the country being acutely affected. For example, record low levels of rainfall in the northern state of Nuevo León have resulted in the city’s dams drying up and groundwater running low. People suffer with no water coming from taps and children are getting sick due to poor sanitation. But Big Beer keeps on guzzling what little water there is to produce their beer products.

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