London Mayor Seeks Revival of Public Drinking Fountains<br />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<br />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.<br />But as concerns mount over the detritus of plastic products<br />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.<br />olera but, most importantly, inadequate free drinking water," said The Drinking Fountain Association, a nonprofit group.<br />that against a background of a filthy River Thames full of untreated sewage, rubbish and effluent from factories, water borne ch<br />But it may be some time before the city sprouts new drinking fountains.
