{"id":12795,"date":"2015-07-20T09:00:46","date_gmt":"2015-07-20T13:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=12795"},"modified":"2015-07-20T01:07:45","modified_gmt":"2015-07-20T05:07:45","slug":"whatever-happened-to-water-fountains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2015\/whatever-happened-to-water-fountains\/","title":{"rendered":"Whatever Happened To Water Fountains?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/072015_0504_WhateverHap1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"641\" height=\"428\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You don&#8217;t see as many water fountains as you used to these days. Kendra Pierre-Louis looked into what happened:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In the old days the poor would drink water bottled from sewage infested sources.<\/li>\n<li>Then in 1859 London installed the world&#8217;s first clean water fountain in a ceremony watched by thousands. The fountain was so popular that at the peak 7,000 people used it a day.<\/li>\n<li>In the next 20 years London installed 800 fountains and American cities soon followed.<\/li>\n<li>Bottled water soon lost favour as it was thought that only low-class places which couldn&#8217;t afford modern plumbing were forced to\u00a0use it.<\/li>\n<li>Then in the 1990s companies saw an opportunity to expand sales of bottled water by creating doubts in people&#8217;s minds about the safety of tap water.<\/li>\n<li>The advertising campaigns were successful and soon people felt that tap water wasn&#8217;t safe \u2013 even though it has been shown to be about as safe as bottled water.<\/li>\n<li>Since people stopped trusting tap water they stopped trusting water fountains.<\/li>\n<li>A water fountain can cost up to $4,500 to install so cities could save on\u00a0costs by cutting back on an amenity that was becoming increasingly unpopular anyway.<\/li>\n<li>This has health consequences. People, for example, resort to sugary drinks instead of water when there are no fountains around.<\/li>\n<li>And all the oil based plastic bottles aren&#8217;t that great for the environment.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read about a possible renaissance for water fountains and more over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/we-dont-trust-drinking-fountains-anymore-and-thats-bad-for-our-health\/2015\/07\/02\/24eca9bc-15f0-11e5-9ddc-e3353542100c_story.html?hpid=z2\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/we-dont-trust-drinking-fountains-anymore-and-thats-bad-for-our-health\/2015\/07\/02\/24eca9bc-15f0-11e5-9ddc-e3353542100c_story.html?hpid=z2\">The Washington Post<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You don&#8217;t see as many water fountains as you used to these days. Kendra Pierre-Louis looked into what happened: In the old days the poor would drink water bottled from sewage infested sources. Then in 1859 London installed the world&#8217;s first clean water fountain in a ceremony watched by thousands. The fountain was so popular [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12794,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/072015_0504_WhateverHap1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12795"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12799,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12795\/revisions\/12799"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}