Anheuser Busch Water Cans / Disaster Cans - Different Years

After disasters like earthquakes and hurricanes, you will find some companies will start canning water instead of their normal product - then donate the water to the area of need.  The biggest company to do this is Anheuser-Busch.  

Anheuser-Busch started making donations to victims of disasters back in 1906 for the San Francisco earthquake.  During 1996-2001, A-B has donated more the 21 million cans of water to victims of natural disasters (facts from A-B's website)

Other companies like Coca-Cola and Stroh Brewery Co. have also done this, but not as much.  I do not have any of the Coca-Cola water cans yet, but I do have one Stroh's water can.

Finding a "MINT" Disaster water can is VERY hard to do.  Almost all of the cans are made of VERY VERY thin aluminum - which makes dings and creases very likely.  (They are free donated cans - they don't have to look nice, just hold the water.)  They will usually have an expiration date on the cans, or a "use within 60/90 days of date".  Usually the cans are white, but some silver cans are known to exist.

PLEASE feel free to use this list to help with your collection.  Also, PLEASE contact me with any information that is wrong, or that can be added.  Some of the information from this list might be wrong, so please help me update it if possible.  watercans @ popcan.org

Also, I'm very interested in getting as many different cans that I can, so I am interested in trading and/or buying cans that I need.

HOW LIST IS SET UP:    First is year made - place can is made - date on can - color of can - where disaster is / what disaster was (other notes)

• --- POPCAN.ORG AB Disaster Water List - Last Updated October 19, 2002 ---

• 1982 - Columbus, OH - 1982 - White - Ft. Wayne, IN flood / great flood 82 (Label added at distributor)

• 1984 - St. Louis, MO - 4/11/84 - White - Florissant, MO / bad water supply

• 1985 - Baldwinsville, NY - 1/28/85

• 1985 - Williamsburg, VA - 11/13/85 - White

• 1986 - Baldwinsville, NY - 1/24/86 - White - Clay, NY / metro water supply

• 1986? - Baldwinsville, NY - no date - White - Clay, NT / metro water supply (*HAVE)

• 1987 - Fairfield, CA - 9/04/87 - White - Northern, CA / flood

• 1988 - Columbus, OH - 1/7/88 - White

• 1989 - Houston, TX - 6/22/89 - White - Bowie, TX / flood

• 1989 - Tampa, FL - 7/07/89 - White

• 1989 - Williamsburg, VA - 10/25/89 - White - Hurricane Hugo (*HAVE)

• 1989 - Jacksonville, FL - 11/15/89 - White - Hurricane Hugo

• 1989 - Fairfield, CA - 11/15/89 - White - Hurricane Hugo (*HAVE)

• 1989 - Fairfield, CA - 12/01/89 - White - San Francisco, CA / earthquake

• 1989 - Fairfield, CA - no date (1989?)

• 1990 - Columbus, OH - 4/13/90 - White - Water Plant shut down - Danville, IL area (*HAVE)

• 1990 - Ft. Collins, CO - 7/24/90 - White

• 1990 - Columbus, OH - no date (1990?)

• 1990 - Columbus, OH - 7/26/90

• 1992 - Fairfield, CA - 6/02/92 - White - Oakland Hills fire

• 1992 - Los Angeles, CA - 7/31/92 - White - for the Olympics (*HAVE)

• 1992 - Los Angeles, CA - 8/10/92 - White - for the Olympics?

• 1992 - Los Angeles, CA - 8/16/92 - White - for the Olympics?

• 1992 - Merrimack, NH - 9/6/92 - White

• 1992 - Fairfield, CA - 9/18/92 - Silver - Southern CA / forest fires

• 1992 - Jacksonville, FL - 9/23/92 - White

• 1992 - Jacksonville, FL - 9/26/92 - White

• 1992 - Jacksonville, FL - 10/28/92 - White - Hurricane Andrew (*HAVE)

• 1992 - Los Angeles, CA - 11/22/92 - White - Hurricane in Hawaii

• 1993 - Columbus, OH - 5/12/93 - White - Flood in Midwest (*HAVE)

• 1993 - St. Louis, MO - no date (1993?)

• 1993 - Ft. Collins, CO - 8/09/93 - White - St. Louis Flood (*HAVE)

• 1993 - St. Louis, MO - 10/4/93 - White - St. Louis Flood

• 1993 - St. Louis, MO - 10/5/93 - White - St. Louis Flood (*HAVE)

• 1993 - St. Louis, MO - 10/7/93 - White - St. Louis Flood (*HAVE)

• 1993 - St. Louis, MO - 10/9/93 - White - St. Louis Flood

• 1993 - Ft. Collins, CO - 10/14/93 - White - St. Louis Flood (*HAVE)

• 1993 - Ft. Collins, CO - 10/14/93 - Silver - St. Louis Flood

• 1993 - St. Louis, MO - 10/14/93 - White - St. Louis Flood

• 1993 - Ft. Collins, CO - 10/15/93 - White - St. Louis Flood (*HAVE)

• 1993 - Ft. Collins, CO - 10/16/93 - White - St. Louis Flood

• 1992 - Ft. Collins, CO - 10/16/93 - Silver - St. Louis Flood (*HAVE)

• 1993 - St. Louis, MO - 10/19/93 - St. Louis Flood (*HAVE)

• 1993 - Ft. Collins, CO - 10/20/93 - Silver - St. Louis Flood

• 1993 - Ft. Collins, CO - 10/23/93 - Silver - St. Louis Flood

• 1993 - St. Louis, MO - 10/25/93 - White - St. Louis Flood (*HAVE)

• 1993 - Ft. Collins, CO - 10/27/93 - Silver - St. Louis Flood (*HAVE)

• 1993 - Ft. Collins, CO - 10/28/93 - Silver - St. Louis Flood (*HAVE)

• 1994 - Los Angeles, CA - 2/01/94 - White - Malibu Fires (*HAVE)

• 1994 - Fairfield, CA - 4/19/94 - White - Northridge CA. Earthquake (*HAVE)

• 1994 - Fairfield, CA - 4/21/94 - White

• 1994 - Fairfield, CA - 4/24/94 - White

• 1994 - St. Louis, MO - 7/13/94 - White (*HAVE)

• 1994 - Cartersville, GA - 8/08/94 - White - Flint River Flood - GA (*HAVE)

• 1995 - Fairfield, CA - 4/11/95 - White (*HAVE)

• 1995 - Fairfield, CA - 4/16/95

• 1996 - Newark, NJ - 5/8/96 - White (*HAVE)

• 1996 - Fairfield, CA - 5/29/96 - White

• 1996 - Cartersville, GA - 12/9/96 - White - Hurricane Fran

• 1997 - St. Louis, MO - 3/5/97

• 1997 - Fairfield, CA - 4/02/97 - Silver

• 1997 - St. Louis, MO - 6/02/97 - White (*HAVE)

• 1997 - Williamsburg, VA - 6/10/97 - Hurricane victims in FL (*HAVE)

• 1997 - Ft. Collins, CO - 7/21/97 - White

• 1998 - Jacksonville, FL - 4/26/98 (*HAVE)

• 1998 - Cartersville, GA - 6/25/98 - White - Fires in east FL

• 1998 - Cartersville, GA - Silver (1998?)

• 1998 - St. Louis, MO - 7/02/98 - White - Fires in east FL (*HAVE)

• 1998 - 9/24/98 - White - Hurricane Georges - Florida

• 1998 - Cartersville, GA - 9/24/98 - Silver - Hurricane George - Florida (*HAVE)

• 1999 - St. Louis, MO - 5/14/99 - White - Hurricane Floyd - N. Carolina (*HAVE)

• 1999 - St. Louis, MO - 5/15/99 - White - Hurricane Floyd - South East Coast (*HAVE)

• 2001 - Cartersville, GA - 5/7/01 - White - New York WTC attack (9,600 cases)  (*HAVE)

• 2001 - Cartersville, GA - 9/13/01 - White - Sequoia National Forest Fire - Porterville, CA Aug 7, 2002(4,400 cases / 105,600 cans)

Below is a list of "disasters" that I know that AB donated water, but I don't have the cans and I don't know what the date is on the cans.  AGAIN, please let me know if you have any of this information and/or want to sell/trade me for them.

• 2001 - canned in Cartersville, GA - [April 2001] (4,800 cases) - flooding of Red River - Minnesota & North Dakota (news from A-B web site)

• 2001 - canned in Cartersville, GA - [May 2001] (2,400 cases) - e. coli contamination of water supply - Mauriceville, TX (news from A-B web site)

• 2001 - canned in Cartersville, GA - [June 2001] - Fires in Florida (news from A-B web site)

• 2001 - canned in Cartersville, GA - [June 2001] (2 production runs - total of 7,056 cans) - flooding in southern Leon county, Florida) (news from A-B web site)

• 2001 - canned in Cartersville, GA - [June 2001] (2,400 cases) - Contaminated water supply - Canton, OH (news from A-B web site)

• 2001 - canned in Cartersville, GA - [June 2001] (9,600 cases) - Southeast Texas flooding (news from A-B web site)

• 2001 - canned in Cartersville, GA - [Nov 20, 2001] (2,200 cases / 53,000 cans) - Del Rio, Texas Flooding 

• 2002 - canned in Cartersville, GA - [May 9, 2002] (2,200 cases) - Pike & Marin Counties, Kentucky - Flooding

• 2002 - canned in Cartersville, GA - [June 11, 2002] (2,200 cases) - Wildfires in Colorado

• 2002 - canned in Cartersville, GA - [June 25, 2002] (4,400 cases) - Wildfires in Northeastern Arizona

• 2002 - canned in Cartersville, GA - [July 2, 2002] (2,200 cases) - Heat victims in West Texas

• 2002 - canned in Cartersville, GA - [July 10, 2002] (2,200 cases) - Flooding in San Antonio, TX area

• 2002 - canned in Cartersville, GA - [July 25, 2002] (2,200 cases) - Contaminated Water supply within the Wind River Indian Reservation

• 2002 - canned in Cartersville, GA - [Sept 27, 2002] (4,400 cases) - Louisiana Victims of Tropical Storm Isidore

• 2002 - canned in Cartersville, GA - [Oct 2, 2002] (2,200 cases) - Mississippi Victims of Tropical Storm Isidore

• 2002 - canned in Cartersville, GA - [Oct 9, 2002] (2,200 cases) - Louisiana Victims of Hurricane Lili

The below are other "disasters" that I know that AB donated cans.  They many already be in the list above, but they might not be - so I'll list these here just to make sure.

• 1997 - canned in Williamsburg, VA [March 1997] - cancelled 2 days of production to produce 100,000 cans for flooding of Ohio River (mostly Kentucky area)

• 1998 - canned in Cartersville, GA - [Nov 5, 1998] - Hurricane George - distributed in Dominican Republic (2,300 cases)

AGAIN - Please let me know if you have any other information to add to this list.  Also if you have any cans that I do not have - and would like to trade or sell, PLEASE contact me at watercans @ popcan.org