n the past, hot summer days meant that some enterprising youngsters in the neighborhood would set up a lemonade stand at five cents a glass or the family would share a pitcher of iced tea on the front porch to cool off. While the summer heat does call for more to drink, Americans have a powerful thirst all year long. Today, the drink of choice is a soft drink, usually carbonated. As a result, we each drink about 49 gallons of soft drinks annually. And the increasing popularity of bottled water has lead to an even greater increase. In 1980, we each drank about 2 1/2 gallons of bottled water. Now that figure is over 29 gallons a year. You can find these and more facts about America from the U.S. Census Bureau, online at www.census.gov.
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