Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Soda Loses Top Spot to Water in U.S. Beverage Consumption

Water is replacing soda as America's top beverage. Americans now drink an average of 44 gallons of soda a year, a 17 percent drop from the peak in 1998. Over the same time, the average amount of water people drink has increased 38 percent, to about 58 gallons a year. Bottled water has led that growth, with consumption nearly doubling to 21 gallons a year. For more than two decades, soda was the No. 1 drink in the U.S. with consumption peaking in 1998 at 54 gallons a year, according to Beverage Digest,

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