Uruguayan grocers running out of bottled water as demand soars

As Uruguay's water crisis continues to escalate, sales of bottled water grew threefold during the last few days as suppliers ran out of stock, it was reported in Montevideo. Daniel Fernández, president of the Center of Retail Warehouses (grocers) and [medium size] Supermarkets of Uruguay (Centro de Almaceneros Minoristas, Baristas, Autoservicistas y Afines del Uruguay - Cambadu) said in an interview with Radio Carve that the main bottling companies of the country have not taken orders since Tuesday and that the retail stores have stock for the just rest of this week. “Yesterday I spoke with the management of the largest producer and distributor of soft drinks -which also produces bottled water- and they told me that the day before yesterday and yesterday they were not taking any more orders because they were out of stock,” due to “a mismatch” between the high growth in demand and production and delivery capacities. “Consumption exploded in one week, from one day to the next those ...