Brilliant idea - Borough Market

The new waterfountains are an excellent idea. We should roll them out all across london. I suspect it would save huge quantities of plastic if you knew that free water was always available.


http://www.london-se1.co.uk/news/view/9368

I think it's a great idea, and agree that drinking fountains should be spread across London.

My home town (Rome), is full of drinking fountains, and now a new model has been introduced that dispenses both still and sparkling water. These free fountains also have charging points for mobile phones and incorporate a compactor bin for used plastic bottles.

Well done, Borough Market. I hope others follow their lead.

I noticed London Zoo are doing something similar https://www.zsl.org/sites/default/files/media/2016-06/%23OneLess%20-%20What%20ZSL%20London%20Zoo%20and%20ZSL%20Whipsnade%20Zoo%20are%20doing.pdf
(I know it's out of area but an iconic London institution too).

And so does Kew Gardens!

Every park had a drinking fountain years ago.

Public drinking fountains are an absolute game changer. This is truly unique and has never been tried before. I do hope they catch on.
What other brilliant ideas do they have up their sleeve? A horseless carriage, perhaps or maybe some type of powered flying machine.

Another failed Boris idea about doing this when the idiot was first elected as mayor
On a positive note the should be on every street corner everybody is dehydrated in this city

I've always carried a litre drinking bottle around with me as a habit from my distant travels and, as now, working on a construction site, a second. Public fountains will certainly make it easier to keep them topped up; now we just need the return of public toilets to deal with the consequences of all that extra fluid.

Tolstoy wrote:

I've always carried a litre drinking bottle around with me as a habit from my distant travels and, as now, working on a construction site, a second. Public fountains will certainly make it easier to keep them topped up; now we just need the return of public toilets to deal with the consequences of all that extra fluid.

It seems really odd that with a growing population we had got rid of all the public toilets. It seems perverse to buy a coffee to use the wc and then sometime later....

Maybe there was a period in the 90s when people stopped needing to pee