Americans now officially drink more bottled water than soda. It’s a shift that decades ago might have seemed unthinkable — that consumers would buy a packaged version of something they could get free ...

For the first time ever, Americans drank more bottled water than soda in 2016. After a decades-long growth streak, bottled water sales by volume surpassed sales of soft drinks last year. Total bottled ...

Bottled water overtook soda as the No. 1 drink sold in the U.S. last year, according to one metric. Americans drank an average of 39.3 gallons of bottled water in 2016 and 38.5 gallons of carbonated ...

Editor's note: A previous version of this story misstated the ownership structure of BlueTriton Brands. All across the University of Florida campus, people can find one consistent item: bottled water.

Bottled water has never been bigger with American consumers — literally. The packaged drink, already the leader in the beverage category, set a total volume record of 15.7 billion gallons in 2021, ...