Expensive Artistic Water Fountains
Only in America (Minneapolis), there are plans to install ten drinking fountains designed by artists, a good idea some might argue, the public gets drinking water and some art to look at and admire costing but the project will cost a whopping total of $500,000. Can spending that much on water fountains be justified? We think so, [...]
The Office Water Fountain
The humble office water fountain is giving drinking fountains in general a bad name. It appears the office water fountain is the number one gathering spot for staff to slack off, swap stories about their weekend and to gossip about their co workers. You know how it all works, you go to fill up your water bottle [...]
Installing drinking fountains
If you work in a school, office or public premise you should and most probably do, have access to clean drinking water at all times. Most of the time your water supply will just be from your kitchen taps though which can be a pain as it’s not always the right temperature and probably still has [...]
Looking to get an Elkay drinking water fountain?
One of the better water fountain companies around at the moment is Elkay. The Elkay range of drinking water fountains are among some of the highest specification drinking water fountains available in the UK. The Elkay company in the States is probably the longest established water cooler manufacturer in the world and the fountains are [...]
Drinking fountain seen wandering around Kings Cross…
Our good friend Ollie was recently seen dressing up as a drinking fountain and wandering around Kings Cross station, shamelessly bearing all in a silver spandex suit and asking for kindly commuters to put a few pennies in his bucket to help raise money for a volunteer trip to South Africa. Once in South Africa, [...]
Importance of Increasing Drinking Water Supply in Third World Countries
INCREASING DRINKABLE WATER SUPPLY IN THIRD WORLD COUNTRIES Having a clean drinkable water supply is something every human on the planet should have access to. Water is essential to our survival and everyday life, without it our health would diminish significantly. However, many countries in the third world still do not have access to clean [...]
Top Three Most Beautiful Water Fountains in the World
TOP THREE MOST BEAUTIFUL WATER FOUNTAINS IN THE WORLD Water fountains were originally created for functionality, to supply water for drinking or to bathe in. In Ancient Rome they started to create water fountains for aesthetic and decorative purposes in courtyards and gardens. Now there are many types of water fountains in the world, drinking [...]
Drinking Fountain Association
THE DRINKING FOUNTAIN ASSOCIATION One of our aims when we established DrinkingWaterFountains.co.uk was to also look to the history of drinking water fountains within the UK and further afield. Research was done and one of the most interesting entities in the industy is the drinking fountains association - www.drinkingfountains.org. The content below is taken directly from [...]