Ann Arbor's Arbor Brewing Co. is one of 20 brewers in the country pledging to reduce the amount of water used in their brewing process, and who are also urging President Obama to reinstate the Clean Water Act.
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"Beer is ninety percent water...Once you account for the brewing process, it takes around five gallons of water to produce just one gallon of beer....
Since Obama is himself a home brewer (though it seems unlikely he has any time to ferment these days), the NRDC has corralled a group of 20 craft breweries—from big hitters such as Sierra Nevada and New Belgium to small guys like Michigan's Arcadia and Brooklyn's Kelso—who have made a pledge to make their operations more water-efficient and have signed a letter to the Obama Administration, urging it to pass guidance from the EPA that would put muscle back into the Clean Water Act."
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