I never stopped using drinking fountains—for reasons unrelated to any current “cause”.
That is OK the guy can keep his drinking fountain. Who really knows what the guy that last drank from the fountain had in the way of diseases and who really knows if that teenager squirted the water out of his/her mouth onto the spout. Haven’t drank from one in years ever since i saw a guy urinate in one.
“…disappearance of public drinking water fountains…”
There are plenty of water fountains, especially in Government buildings; and they contract for bottle water to be brought into their offices.
I call this crap propaganda and B.S.; Americans do not trust the water supply provided by Government!
I remember the good old days when I saw drinking fountains in the park in Seattle without handles. They had so much water up there that they just let the fountains run constantly.
The article makes some sense. However, as I noted in the SFGate.com comments, it would be more credible if the author did not go out of his way to make a mild slam against the Tea Party.
Scary article from yesterday about a government office in Seattle finding out that its drinking fountain water had been connected to the air conditioning system for the past five years:
[url]http://www.seattlepi.com/local/6420ap_wa_ferry_hq_water.html[/url]
This might also explain why the water in the drinking fountains at the federal court building in San Francisco tastes like rust.
I only drink water when I am in Scotland. And I have never been to Scotland...
Bottled water is a revenue source.
For sports venues, with a captured audience who is not allowed to bring in outside drinks, it's a no-brainer.
Gotta keep generating loot for the owners to pay those multi-million dollar players.
I think the reason people are drinking so much bottled water is that so many people have bought into the idea of bottled water filtering out all the impurities, even though some companies like Aquafina (Pepsi) have been found using regular tap water. Spell Evian backwards, and then go buy their product.
You can make a lot of money in the world if you convince people that by buying your product, it makes them smarter and more evolved than commoners. Just look at the Polar Bear electric car commercial they are putting in NFL games.
I think that I can recall law suits brought against perceived injuries from the use of public fountains. If I were building a public venue, I too would seek to minimize my “Exposure to Torts” risk. Just another aspect of how our public life is affected by legal issues, hard to quantify but you know it is happening.
Let’s see,a sanitary-sealed bottle of spring water or a public water fountain in SF ‘maintained’ by union parks employees. Yup. I’m pining for the fountain.