Since I left school I feel like nearly every water fountain I come by doesn’t work. Maybe 70% of indoor ones don’t work and 80% of outdoor ones don’t work. Is this a US lack of public investment thing or are they just really annoying to maintain so no one does it anywhere. Is there a place where MLKs dream lives on and anyone can get a drink of water for free?
And by work I mean you’re able to drink from them without making out with the slow dribble coming out of it.
Indoor ones usually work for me, but only half of them actually chill the water. One time it looked like it wouldn’t work, but I just had to hold down the switch for 15 seconds before it flowed sufficiently. What I’d really like to know, however, is why some taste fine while others taste absolutely gross, despite being in the same building.
I haven’t encountered an outdoor one in a while, but they usually don’t work. Unless I’m abroad. By the lack of foot traffic and the state of other public facilities in the US, I’m not too surprised. The last working one I encountered outdoors looked quite old and disused but the water tasted really nice. And sweet. In hindsight, that might have been a great source of lead. Oops.