Brewery Producing Cans of Water for Disaster Victims

They will produce 2 million cans of water for disaster victims.

MillerCoors partnered with Ball Corporation to provide more than two million cans of drinking water to the Red Cross.
MillerCoors partnered with Ball Corporation to provide more than two million cans of drinking water to the Red Cross.
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TRENTON, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio brewery will skip the hops and barley to produce 2 million cans of water for disaster victims.

The Hamilton-Middletown Journal-News reports the water will be canned at the MillerCoors Trenton, Ohio, brewery over the next three years in a partnership with the American Red Cross.

Red Cross officials say clean drinking water is one of the most urgent needs after a disaster because normal supplies are often contaminated or inaccessible.

Colorado-based Ball Corporation is providing cans and Atlanta-based Graphic Packaging International the packaging in what has become a national collaborative effort.

The Red Cross responds to tens of thousands of disasters each year ranging from house fires to hurricanes and provides assistance to victims at no cost.

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