[naviga:h3]Brewer produces water for recovery[/naviga:h3]

TRENTON, Ohio — An Ohio brewery will skip the hops and barley to produce 2 million cans of water for disaster victims.

The water will be canned at the MillerCoors Trenton, Ohio, brewery over the next three years in a partnership with the American Red Cross.

Red Cross officials said clean drinking water is one of the biggest needs after a disaster.

[naviga:h3]Russia scolds others on oil output [/naviga:h3]

MOSCOW — Russia’s energy minister has called on major oil producers to show greater discipline in sticking to output cuts aimed at raising the price of crude.

Following a meeting of OPEC and non-OPEC countries in the Russian city of St. Petersburg, Alexander Novak said “despite the high level of compliance with the agreement, we insist on all countries fulfilling their obligations 100 percent.” The comments were reported by Russia’s RIA Novosti agency.

Oil prices have stayed below $50 per barrel in recent weeks.

[naviga:h3]Germans deal with emissions[/naviga:h3]

FRANKFURT, Germany — The German auto industry’s troubles over excessive diesel emissions are looming larger.

Shares in the three biggest German automakers fell today after a newsmagazine report claimed they had colluded for years over diesel technology.

BMW was off 2.3 percent, Daimler 3.4 percent and Volkswagen 2.5 percent.

Der Spiegel reported that employees from Volkswagen, Audi, BMW, Mercedes and Porsche had met since the 1990s and had agreed to limit the size of the tanks holding a urea solution used to reduce diesel emissions.