(TDB) - A municipality close to the Mexican/American border has seen its water reserves run dry because of a nearby brewery.

Mayor Leoncio Martínez Sánchez of the municipality of Zaragoza, penned a single-sentence letter to Coahuila state governor Rubén Moreira saying: “WE HAVE NO WATER FOR HUMAN CONSUMPTION.”

“There’s barely a drop of water when you open the tap”, Martínez told the Guardian, as Zaragoza goes through a water shortage because a brewery owned by US firm Constellation Brands continues to plunder water drilled from local wells at a depth of 500 metres.

Recently the plant announced plans to increase their production, but Martinez believes that will only serve to aggravate the situation, especially given the federal government’s plans to increase fracking in Mexico.

“We’re worried because we’re already being impacted by this extraction of 1,200 litres of water per second” by the brewery, he said. “It’s contradictory that while Constellation Brands has industrial amounts of water to make beer, the municipality of Zaragoza doesn’t have 100 litres [per second of water] of water to give people to drink or use in their homes.”