Mexico considers banning beer production in the north of the country due to water shortage

Daniel Stewart - Yesterday 

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has raised the possibility that breweries in the north of the country may stop production due to the water shortage emergency in the area.

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The Mexican leader has thus announced that concessions will be reviewed and incentives will be given for them to set up in the south of the country, where there is sufficient water to allow them to maintain production levels, mostly destined for export.

López Obrador has thus highlighted the agreement reached at the time with the Constellation Brands brewery in Mexicali, where the permit was revoked because it even endangered the water for domestic use. Based on a consultation with the population, an agreement was promoted and the company accepted to relocate to the south of the country.

"We have to do something similar and try not to leave the breweries without a permit. Mexico is the country that produces the most beer in the world. Investment, foreign currency, because beer is being exported," said López Obrador, according to the Mexican press.

The Mexican president explained that "it is not to say that we are no longer going to produce beer, (but) that beer will not be produced in the north".

The president said that it is not possible to reach the extreme that was reached in La Laguna, with milk production, where due to the scarcity of water, deeper wells were drilled, where there is water with arsenic and now plants are needed to eliminate this mineral from the water.