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This is a screenshot of the 'Water bottling across the U.S.' interactive map and data visualization.

There are many types of beverage-bottling facilities: bottled water facilities, breweries, distilleries, ice facilities, soft drink manufacturing plants, and wineries. What do all these facilities have in common? They all use water.

Bottled water alone (meaning, not part of another beverage) is an important subset of all bottling facilities. The bottled water industry estimates that the United States consumed 15 billion gallons (57 billion liters) of bottled water in 2020 (International Bottled Water Association). That's 45.2 gallons of bottled water per person, or 342 standard bottles of water.