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Plain ol' water regains top spot for Americans' drink preference

Posted Fri, 2013/04/05 - 1:57pm by RCAP

The Associated Press reported recently that water has become the top drink for Americans.

The average American consumes 44 gallons of soda a year. Soda used to be the top choice of beverage for Americans. Soda consumption peaked in 1998 at 54 gallons a year.

Now Americans are drinking an average of 58 gallons of water a year.

Read the Associated Press's article in one newspaper [1]

Topics:
- water [2],
- bottled [3],
- drinking [4],
- soda [5],
- pop [6],
- consumption [7],
- drink [8],
- beverage [9]

Source URL: http://www.rcap.org/node/1232

Links:
[1] http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20130317/business/703179939/?interstitial=1
[2] http://www.rcap.org/taxonomy/term/38
[3] http://www.rcap.org/taxonomy/term/518
[4] http://www.rcap.org/taxonomy/term/699
[5] http://www.rcap.org/taxonomy/term/792
[6] http://www.rcap.org/taxonomy/term/1071
[7] http://www.rcap.org/taxonomy/term/208
[8] http://www.rcap.org/taxonomy/term/1072
[9] http://www.rcap.org/taxonomy/term/791