US brewery stops making beer to produce emergency drinking water for flood victims in Texas and Oklahoma

A brewery in the US stopped beer production and started canning emergency drinking water for victims of historic floods and storms in Texas and Oklahoma.

NBC News reports that Anheuser-Busch stopped production of beer at the Cartersville brewery in Georgia on Wednesday night and began to fill 50,00 cans of water for the American Red Cross.

Brewery manager Rob Haas told NBC News:

This isn't the first time the Cartersville Brewery has stepped in during a time of crisis: the brewery has a special relationship with the Red Cross to provide safe drinking water to areas in need.

2,000 cases of canned drinking water - each carrying 24 cans - are now being shipped to flood-hit communities in Texas and Oklahoma, he added, and should reach the stricken areas over the next few days.

Red Cross spokesman Jordan Scott said the organization had been working with Anheuser-Busch to get the water deliveries to the people that need it:

Torrential rains and flash floods have claimed at least 25 lives in the two states this week, with dozens of people still missing.