Budweiser Is Canning Water, the Reason Will Make You Love America

In this photo illustration, A cans of Budweiser, rebranded as 'America,' sit on a table, May 23, 2016, in Washington, DC. As part of an advertising campaign, cans and bottles of Budweiser will be labeled as 'America' instead of 'Budweiser' from now until the November 4th election. Drew Angerer/Getty Images

Anheuser-Busch, the parent company of Budweiser beer, has paused beer production at one of its breweries in order to make clean emergency drinking water for people affected by the devastation of Hurricane Harvey.

The company has sent 150,000 cans of emergency drinking water to the disaster zone. A shipment of 50,000 cans arrived at the Baton Rouge Red Cross on Monday, aug. 28, and a shipment of 100,000 cans is bound for Arlington, Texas, Syracuse reported.

The Anheuser-Busch facility in Cartersville, Georgia, is a key national asset because it can pause beer production and switch to canning drinking water during emergencies.

The Cartersville brewery can produce 24 kinds of beer, but pauses at least twice a year to produce canned water for emergencies, a representative for Anheuser-Busch told Syracuse.

A resident holds a can of water donated by the Anheuser-Busch company as water wells supplying hundreds of residents remain dry in the fourth year of worsening drought on Feb. 11, 2015, in East Porterville, Calif. David McNew/Getty Images