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So where I'm from we have a similar problem yet no end in site. After last years summer we had one of the worst droughts this region has ever had, but then it w
by mad_tortoise 9y ago
So where I'm from we have a similar problem yet no end in site. After last years summer we had one of the worst droughts this region has ever had, but then it went into winter. It didn't rain much this winter and now we're back in summer... With water restrictions starting the summer as bad as they were when we ended it.
To the point of this though. One of the worlds largest breweries is situated in my city. My country has a horrendous alcohol problem, to the extent where paying farm labourers in booze only got outlawed just over 20 years ago.
Anyway this brewery makes most of the beer in the Southern Hemisphere, yet it was able to get so large because it is right on top of one of the biggest springs, and they claimed riparian rights many years ago.
My problem being is that up until this year, for the past 3 years, the public was allowed access to the spring on their land. Now they are denying the public access while we go through a drought and they continue to produce beer for next to nothing as they don't pay a cent for their biggest ingredient. Now I want to stop them making beer while we are in a drought, but in a country run by alcohol makers that will surely either be an impossible task or end up getting me killed.
- _h_o_d_ 9y agoCan you name the brewery / city?
- mad_tortoise 9y agoCape Town, South Africa. SABMiller, which was recently bought for £69 billion by Anheuser-Busch InBev.
- theoh 9y agoSpecifically this brewery, I'm guessing: http://www.sab.co.za/the-sab-story/the-story-of-newlands-brewery/ http://www.sab.co.za/the-sab-story/the-story-of-newlands-bre... http://www.702.co.za/articles/250909/sab-urges-members-of-the-public-to-stop-abusing-source-of-free-water http://www.702.co.za/articles/250909/sab-urges-members-of-th...
- mad_tortoise 9y agoYes that's the one.
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- pgt 9y agoAs a Cape Town resident, I can corroborate all of the above. The city has instituted "Level 5B" water restrictions which mean <87L/person/day and no irrigation or washing allowed using municipal water.