Hold the beer: Anheuser-Busch sending water for victims of Harvey

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This image from Anheuser-Busch shows the brewery's recognizable white water cans. The company is sending water to Texas in the wake of Tropical Storm Harvey.

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This image from Anheuser-Busch shows the brewery's recognizable white water cans. The company is sending water to Texas in the wake of Tropical Storm Harvey.

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The white Anheuser-Busch water can has become one of the most recognizable symbols of disaster relief in America.

Now three truckloads of those cans are headed to the Gulf Coast.

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The brewing giant's Cartersville, Georgia, facility halted production of beer to package the drinking water, the company announced Monday. The brewery does this periodically to be prepared for disasters.

"Putting our production and logistics strengths to work by providing safe, clean drinking water is the best way we can help in these situations" said Bill Bradley, Anheuser-Busch's Vice President for Community Affairs in a release.

Anheuser-Busch has a major presence in Houston with their facility near the East Loop and I-10 and their recent acquisition of Karbach. The company said that all of those employees are safe.

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The water, more than 155,000 cans, will initially be delivered to American Red Cross facilities in Arlington and Baton Rogue, Louisiana.

After slamming into the Texas coast as a Category 4 hurricane, Harvey has dropped several feet of water on the Houston area, resulting in thousands of rescues and a handful of deaths.