Drinking Water Fountains

Drinking Water Fountains: Alnwick Garden

Following last week’s blog, in which we had a brief examination of the fountain in the courtyard at the Royal Academy of Art, we’ve been looking for more special drinking water fountains around the country that will bring you joy and pleasure simply by looking upon them. Alas, the whole drinking water fountains thing didn’t really work for us this week either, but we found out all about the Alnwick Garden fountain, in the heart of Northumberland, some of which fascinating info we’d like to share with you.

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Perranporth Memorial Water Fountain

We recently helped a client who was in need of all the parts for a drinking water fountain so that they could have a stonemason craft their own casing for the parts, making a unique fountain.

The Perranporth Golf Club came to us after one of the clubs long standing members had sadly passed away. After having spent so much time at the club the family wanted to donate something special to the club in his memory. They agreed on having a custom made fountain installed in the grounds of the club, and to have… Read the rest

Drinking Water Fountains: The Royal Academy

If you, like us here at drinking water fountains, have found yourself out and about in our beautiful country and have marvelled at some of the wonderful and innovative drinking, and non drinking water fountains all over the place, you’re probably wondering why we haven’t written any blogs about them. For this, dear reader, we sincerely apologise, and it is now we begin to rectify this situation. We kick off our new four-part blog with a quick critique of the fountain in the courtyard of the Royal Academy of Art in central London.… Read the rest

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Drinking Water Fountains make us Glee-ful

A new phenomenon has arrived. At first, it seemed like it would be relatively easy to control, that it would be possible that not EVERY singe person across Britain became addicted to/borderline obsessed with the aforementioned phenomenon….but this was not to be. Glee fever has well and truly hit, and there’s nothing we can do. So if you’re at a loose end of a night, and want something to get you riled up and wanting to sing your heart out into your hairbrush and dance around the house, look no further than 4oD.

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Drinking fountains in Bratislava

After our boss Rob has come back from his holiday from Slovakia, he started to show pictures of the City. But as we are very interested to see pictures of the Bratislava, the only pictures Rob took were the pictures of different types of drinking fountain. They seem to be spread everywhere in the Old City, with cold, fresh water. They are used a lot and as the temperature has risen to 36 degrees everyone was keen to refresh himself in these.
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Drinking Water Fountains Hygiene

There are many ways in which we can all help keep public drinking water fountains across the country clean and hygienic for everyone to drink from. If we all work together doing some of these simple things that we’re suggesting in this week’s blog, then it’ll make a big difference to everyone! So read on, dear water fan, and let’s change the world, one fountain at a time… - If you’re drinking from a public fountain, it’s recommended/commonly observed etiquette that one should refrain from placing one’s whole mouth over the nozzle,

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St James’ Park gets new Drinking Water Fountains

Following worrying findings that drinking water fountains across the UK’s parks have been falling into disrepair, and thus are unfit for the public to drink from, Authorities have decided to spend some time deciding which fountains standing on land owned by the Royal Parks Foundation, are to be renovated and thus become more appealing to the people of Britain once again. A report in the Telegraph has also stated that the worldwide company, Tiffany & Co., usually more well-known for their production of ornate and expensive jewellery,

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Launch of a Drinking Water Fountains Campaign

We English love a good old bit of campaigning; standing up for what we believe in and making sure the people with the power hear us doing so. We particularly love making a noise about our health, more so if it concerns our children and other young people across the country. Since the release of the shocking report that drinking water fountains in public parks are falling into disrepair, and have been for some time, there has been a lot going on… The writers at My Real England, a blog site created

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Drinking water fountains fall into disrepair

It’s a sad state of affairs when we, the British public, do not have access to clean drinking water, even in places of activity and recreation such as public parks. Across the country, it has been reported that drinking water fountains have fallen into disrepair as a result of neglect from local authorities. During the study, carried out by he Children’s Food Campaign, who work to improve the health of young people, it was found that only 11% of the green spaces across the UK have drinking water fountains, and of

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