Water is at the basis of everything we do at Anheuser-Busch, so we feel a deep responsibility to be stewards of the water that sustains our communities, gives life to our earth, and goes into the beers we proudly brew.

By 2025, our sustainability goals include ensuring 100% of our facilities and breweries are engaged in water efficiency efforts and 100% of our communities in high-stress areas have measurably improved water availability and quality. 

Since 2010, we have organized more than 185 river and watershed protection cleanups in partnership with River Network for Anheuser-Busch employees, family members, and friends across the country to volunteer to help improve local water quality and availability, with 20 additional cleanups planned for 2021.

This year, in celebration of World Water Day, we are also encouraging partners across our value chain - including our 19,000 employees, our wholesaler partners, and consumers - to join the “ Anheuser-Busch Seed to Sip Clean-Up Challenge” to protect and restore community watersheds. 

​Through the app Litterati, the Anheuser-Busch Seed to Sip Clean-Up Challenge will run from World Water Day (3/22) to World Environment Day (6/5) and challenge employees, partners, and consumers to go out in their community and pick up litter to help support our watersheds and maximize our impact on the ground in communities across the country.  

To date through our partnership with River Network, we have partnered with more than 50 local non-profits to mobilize 55,000 volunteers to plant over 68,000 trees and remove over one million pounds of litter.

Anheuser-Busch is proud to partner with environmental organizations and non-profits who share our purpose to protect our environment, such as Keep America Beautiful, River Network, and Living Lands and Waters.  

“We believe that businesses play a vital role in a future that includes healthier rivers and clean water for all. Anheuser Busch stands out as an exceptional putting action behind their commitment to protect and improve these precious resources community by community. Over 10 years our partnership has removed up to 1 million lbs of litter with the help of over 54,000 volunteers, accomplishing much more together than we would have alone.”  – Nicole Silk, President of  River Network

“I've been extremely fortunate to work side by side with thousands of enthusiastic Anheuser-Busch employees over the last 20+ years and, with their help and many others, we've been able to remove over 10 million pounds of garbage from America's rivers. The brewer has been one of our strongest corporate partners and is truly passionate about its ability to positively impact the communities where it operates.” -  Chad Pregracke, President and Founder of  Living Lands & Water

The Anheuser-Busch Foundation has also provided 3-year grant to The Nature Conservancy (TNC) - totaling over $1.8 million - to help increase the quantity and improve the quality of water available to nurture natural ecosystems and communities in the western United States. 

The collaboration, which began in 2019, specifically aims to improve the health of river systems important to the communities of Fort Collins, Colorado and Los Angeles, California through conservation projects along the Cache la Poudre (“Poudre”), Big Thompson, Los Angeles, and Colorado Rivers.

Anheuser-Busch's water conservancy efforts continue to flourish, in our breweries and facilities, where we have already reduced our water usage across our 12 flagship breweries by more than 25% in the past ten years – the equivalent of 32 billion cans of beer!

Finding the right solutions is all about teamwork, and programs such as our  annual water savings competition challenge our employees at 45 of our operations facilities across the country to develop new ways to save water.

Engaging our facilities, employees and communities in water stewardship efforts creates a future with more cheers.