The brewing industry could avoid the perils of potential future water shortages by constructing floating breweries, it has been claimed.
Brewery giant SAB Miller has come up with a number of solutions to climate change, with the firm suggesting breweries could move onto ships to escape countries suffering from severe drought.
Rob Wilkinson, director of Innovia Technology, the author of the report, claimed the idea is feasible, although he thought the plans were merely "food for thought" rather than direct blueprints.
He said: "It would allow for rapid entry to new markets, especially where no infrastructure is in place, it would provide flexibility in positioning and length of stay and allow SABMiller to move with water sources, with people, with crops, or even away from severe weather, natural disasters or political instability."
SAB Miller also claimed that breweries could seek to form links with the local community during energy shortages, in order to use mills to process crops.
Typical Guttridge equipment used in the brewing industry includes: elevators – bucket elevators – valves
