London Mayor Seeks Revival of Public Drinking Fountains
By contrast, Paris — one of London’s great rivals in the claim to metropolitan excellence — boasts a broad array of drinking fountains, including some newer ones
that dispense sparkling water, and the older, but imposing, so-called Wallace Fountains created with donations from a British philanthropist, Sir Richard Wallace, in the late 19th century to provide clean water for the poor.
But as concerns mount over the detritus of plastic products
that elude recycling, London’s mayor, Sadiq Khan, let it be known on Monday that he wished to redress the balance by providing more drinking fountains and bottle-filling stations while reducing the prevalence of single-use packaging.
olera but, most importantly, inadequate free drinking water," said The Drinking Fountain Association, a nonprofit group.
that against a background of a filthy River Thames full of untreated sewage, rubbish and effluent from factories, water borne ch
But it may be some time before the city sprouts new drinking fountains.