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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

 

Washington Post: Beverage companies, fearing lack of water will hurt business, invest millions in conservation

Posted Fri, 2012/08/17 - 4:36pm by RCAP

This Aug. 8 article begins:

"WEST COLUMBIA, Texas — Fifty miles outside the nation’s fourth-largest city is a massive field of waist-high grass, buzzing bees and palm-size butterflies, just waiting to be ripped up by an entrepreneur.

"Rather than develop this pristine remnant of coastal prairie, vast enough to house more than 300 football fields, the Dr Pepper Snapple Group is investing hundreds of thousands of dollars to ensure it remains untouched...