Does Brewery Know When to Say When?

Your articles on California’s drought describe the hard choices families and farmers are making to conserve water.

Ironically, while Gov. Wilson now urges individuals to take shorter showers, and local policy makers and water utilities exhort us to cut back 15%, who is telling Anheuser-Busch, L.A.’s second-largest private water user, to stop flooding our communities with suds?

The nation’s largest brewer is drinking up precious water daily at its Van Nuys plant.

It should not be permitted by the Department of Water and Power and the Bureau of Land Management to ship its own water from the Owens Valley to its Van Nuys brewery through the aqueduct, as it has proposed.

Homeowner groups everywhere should be incensed at such audacity and its obvious adverse environmental impact.

Local DWP officials and elected leaders need to hear it from the grass roots.

It’s high time Anheuser-Busch learned when to say “When.�

RAY CHAVIRA, Lancaster. Chavira wrote as head of the High Desert Alcohol Policy Coalition .