Bottled water on track to outsell soda by 2017

People need it, people drink it, and now more and more people are thirsty enough to pay for it. Bottled water sales volume grew at a rate of 7 percent in the U.S. last year to put it on pace to outsell soda by 2017, according to forecasts from Beverage Marketing, first reported by the Wall Street Journal. That's not necessarily all bad news for Coca-Cola (NYSE: KO) and Pepsi (NYSE: PEP), who ...