The new drinking fountain in London's Hyde Park - but will we get any more?
Back in the day, outdoor drinking fountains were everywhere, they were vital for the wellbeing of the public and were often the only way to quench the thirst of the villages. They were often a very simple design, nothing too crazy, just a concrete slab with a hole for the water to come out of.
Some parts of the world took pride in their drinking fountains and used them as a way to show off the design skills of their architects and artists in the region. France had some of the most glorious water fountains in the world. These days it seems as though public drinking water fountains are few and far between.
London’s Hyde Park has recently recieved a very fancy addition to its green landscape, a brand new water fountain shaped like a sphere designed so children and adults can easily reach the access points to the water.
The fountain is the first one in the park for 30 years and was installed by instruction of Boris Johnson, but it appears the mayor has no more plans to install any more fountains in surrounding parks.
Sticking up for Boris, a spokeswoman for the Mayor argued, “The Mayor is very keen on public water fountains and is exploring practical ways to promote them in a climate where many organisations are facing funding pressures.”
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Back in the day it was quite common for people in the village to all gather around the village drinking fountain for their daily chat as well as for a swift drink on their way through town. Now with so many germaphobes running around, people are less inclined to drink from outdoor drinking fountains even though they are all certainly clean enough to drink from. European cities have the oldest most beautiful outdoor fountains, most of which you can still from. There’s a gorgeous one in Dubrovnik, Croatia, which attracts hundreds of tourists each day, all lining up to fill their water bottles to the brim.
It’s more of a novelty than anything else, but if we had more of the modern outdoor drinking fountains in public areas such as parks and playareas, people would benefit as it would be a way of getting your daily water intake up. As everyone knows, it’s extremely important to drink water every day, up to eight glasses is the recommendation. So with more outdoor drinking water fountains it would make it that little bit easier for everyone to achieve the eight glass recommendation each day.
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Drinking Water Fountains were notified over the weekend of the first installation in the proposed London-wide scheme from the Mayor, to provide Drinking Water Fountains at more points across the city of London.
The promised public drinking water fountains have mutated into glorified vending machines as you can see – not really any form on innovation and certainly not the promised function of external points across the city where people can fill up their bottles. We wait for the next developments from city hall.
