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Major U.S. Breweries Work to Conserve Water Amid Widespread Drought
2014-06-12 22:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: Major breweries in the U.S. are cutting back on the amount of water they use to brew beer as drought threatens their water supplies, the Associated Press reports. MillerCoors, headquartered in Chicago, has reduced its water use by 9.2 percent since 2012, a company sustainability report said. Earlier this month St. Louis-based Anheuser-Busch, the largest U.S. brewer, reported that it has cut water use by 32 percent in the last five years. Employing strategies such as fueling boilers with wastewater,...
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