Water for Profits, Not for People: How Big Alcohol is Draining Mexico Dry - Movendi International

Climate change reminds us that water is an increasingly scarce natural resource in the world, which carries risks and forces people to try to moderate its consumption. How much water is there in Mexico? In Mexico, access to drinking water is a human right, which also represents a challenge for the authorities to make use of it. According to the National Household Income and Expenditure Survey (ENIGH) 2022 of Inegi, 93% of housing in the country …

Water for Profits, Not for People: How Big Alcohol is Draining Mexico Dry - Movendi International

By Alejandro Calvillo, Luis Alonso Robledo, and Norberto Francisco Hernández-Llanes“It’s Not Drought, It’s Plunder”The alcohol industry, especially beer giants, extract vast amounts of water, impacting access to this vital liquid in communities across Mexico. Much of this enormous extraction takes place in water-stressed regions, and its main destination is for export. Beer is the main product exported by Mexico, with a production valued at more…