I don't usually talk about things other that rum, but once in a while I run across things like this. Anheuser - Busch stepping up to the plate and producing 155,000 plus cans of water to be taken to the people of Texas that are in need of all of the help they can get. Nice job Anheuser - Busch.
Beer production was halted at the Anheuser-Busch brewery
in Cartersville, Georgia on Monday and trucks were sent out with emergency
deliveries - truckloads of clean drinking water for Hurricane Harvey victims. The first shipment arrived at the American Red
Cross in Baton Rouge, Louisiana on Monday, and two more shipments were sent to
Arlington, Texas. The cans of water -
more than 155,000 of them in total - were sent courtesy of the Anheuser-Busch
emergency drinking water program. "Putting our production and logistics
strengths to work by providing safe, clean drinking water is the best way we
can help in these situations," Bill Bradley, Anheuser-Busch's Vice
President for Community Affairs, said in a statement.
According to the statement, the brewery in Cartersville
halts production as needed to prepare drinking water to help with community
relief efforts. Anheuser-Busch says it
has provided over 76 million cans of clean emergency drinking water during
disasters since 1988. In 2016 alone, the company sent water to Flint, Michigan,
California communities plagued by wildfires, and victims of Hurricane Matthew.
Harvey has caused widespread flooding affecting hundreds
of thousands of people in Houston, Texas and surrounding areas. The storm has
dumped unprecedented rainfall on the city for four consecutive days, and the
worst may be yet to come.
Here's how you can join in to help the victims.
