Represents 0.24% of all the water granted in the country
At the Monterrey plant, Heineken’s oldest in Mexico, the company produces the brands Tecate, Tecate Light, XX Ámbar, Indio, among others. Here, Heineken Cuauhtémoc Moctezuma produces 3 million liters of beer.
The company indicated that it uses 2.3 liters of water per liter of beer, while the company’s average measurement is 2.5 liters of water per liter of beer.
In recent days, Heineken announced that it would donate 20% of the water it has under concession for domestic use in Nuevo León. In addition, the company states that it uses “less than 1% of the total water demand required by the Monterrey metropolitan area.”
In Mexico, 59,115 cubic meters of water have been concessioned, according to the study The Water Millionaires published in the journal Arguments of the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana.
If this data is taken into account, the available water in Cuauhtémoc Moctezuma would represent 0.24% of this total.
In the article written by researchers Wilfrido A. Gómez-Arias and Andrea Moctezuma, It is estimated that 1.1% of the users of drinking water in the country, and who have a concession for its exploitation, have in their possession 22.3% of the liquid, almost a fifth.
This while between 12 and 15 million inhabitants in the country lack access to drinking wateraccording to estimates of the National Autonomous University of Mexico.