London's Green Park - where are the drinking water fountains?

Carrying on from our last blog about water fountains getting fancy, we thought we’d have a look at why London doesn’t have more outdoor water fountains in it’s parks, especially the big ones such as Hyde Park, Regent’s Park and Green Park.

Politicians have realised the need for more fountains as London get’s hotter and people are going off buying bottled, some have even said they think London needs a new era of public fountains.

So what’s the hold up then and why are we still having to buy bottled water instead of being able to quench our thirst with access to public drinking fountains?

Darren Johnson, a member of the Green party on the London Assembly said Boris Johnson promised more public fountains.

“This vision unfortunately has evaporated. To date there is no visible action and his draft water strategy has no specific proposals for delivering water fountains in parks or public spaces. Currently there are no plans to install water fountains from the Mayor’s park fund. Installing water fountains in parks and public spaces would provide free water and help discourage people from buying plastic water bottles.”

We couldn’t agree more, so let’s all get behind the petition for more public drinking water fountains and hopefully Boris will listen up and get some fountains in those parks!

If you would like any information on Drinking Water Fountains please call us on 0845 500 4455 or email contact@drinkingwaterfountains.co.uk

No matter which sector you are in whether it is construction, health, leisure, education or the public sector it’s important to have the right cooler or fountain for your work environment.

Things to consider include:

• Whether you want a bottled water cooler or a drinking water fountain?
• How many water coolers or fountains you might need?
• Do you need to cater for children?
• What sort of look do you want, sophisticated or simple?
• Do you want to rent or buy?

There are differences between the bottled water coolers and the drinking water fountains, the main one being cost. A bottled water cooler will end up costing more over a 12 month period than an installed drinking water fountain. With a drinking water fountain there’s no sanitisation fee to pay, nor is there a fee to pay for water bottles or a water bottle deposit, just a monthly machine fee.

If you choose a drinking water fountain you will also benefit from no heavy lifting of water bottles, no storage problems, no paperwork, no delivery issues and best of all, you will never run out of water as you’ll have a constant supply of fresh water 365 days a year. If you decide to go with a water fountain from Drinking Water Fountains all rental prices include installation, full servicing and six monthly sanitisation and filter changes.

For more information on the range of fountains from Drinking Water Fountains please contact us on 0845 500 4455 or email us on contact@drinkingwaterfountains.co.uk.

ENVIRONMENTAL BENEFITS OF PUBLIC DRINKING WATER FOUNTAINS

People can use it to fill up their bottles. Summers are getting hotter – 2008 was the 10th hottest year on record – and it means people can fill up with good clean mains water free and save some money.

For more images of drinking water fountains installed across London’s public spaces please look at the images below – if you have other images which you think should be added to this then please email them to contact@drinkingwaterfountains.co.uk.

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