Monday, October 16, 2017

Water Fountain

We also talked to urban planner Josselyn Ivanov, who wrote her masters thesis for MIT’s Department of Urban Studies and Planning on the decline of publicly available water, aka drinking fountains. “In the absence of investment and maintenance [in drinking fountains], many people fill the void by hauling around their own personalized infrastructure,” she tells us. Your other options are bleak. “If you need a cup of water, you have to find a store, wait in line, and buy something you don’t want. If you walk into a store to just ask for water without buying something, some stores may discriminate against certain races or types of people.” While reliable drinking fountains are a more environmentally friendly way cities can prevent this, in the meantime, carrying your water bottle with you is a way to avoid that. She pointed us towards a sign of the ultimate decline of public water: Refill, a subscription service for water bottle refills in New York City, which will let you fill up your own water bottle inside a cafe where there is no water fountain—for a price.
https://thewirecutter.com/reviews/best-water-bottle/

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