Anheuser-Busch Plant Makes...Water? ATLANTA (WABE) - The Anheuser-Bush plant in Cartersville is halting beer production today. Instead, it's going to produce .canned water. WABE's Martha Dalton explains.

As the snow melts this spring in some parts of the U.S., experts predict heavy flooding in those areas. To help with relief efforts, the Cartersville Anheuser-Bush plant is producing 25-thousand cases of water today, says General Manager Robert Haas:

"The time to be prepared for a disaster is before it happens. So, we hope that this water doesn't have to get used. We hope that we can bring it back and recycle it. But, in case it does have to get used, we want to be prepared."

Haas says it takes the plant two and a half times longer to produce water than beer:

"It's a little bit more difficult actually. You know, beer is carbonated. Running non-carbonated products takes a little bit longer, so we slow the lines down a bit. But, it'll take about eight hours to run on one of our lines, but well within our resources."

Haas says over the past three years, the company has donated more than 6 million cans of drinking water to victims of natural disasters.
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