Drinking water fountains for outdoor recreational areas

Drinking water fountains are pleased to offer the Halsey Taylor range of external drinking water fountains.These are ideal for use in recreational areas including parks and sports facilities as they are very robust and in most cases vandal proof. There is a huge range of models available including models with bottle drinking stations,Disabled access fountains [...]

 
 

Google to launch Wetap fountain logging application

A new project involving Google and Android will help you find public drinking fountains using your smart phone. The duo is building a new app for Android-powered phones that crowd-sources the locations of fountains in an effort to combat bottled water consumption. “Where have all our drinking water fountains gone?” Gleick writes in an article in [...]

 
 

Royal Parks fountain restoration

Tiffany and Co. Foundation is celebrating its 10th anniversary with a $1.25 million gift to the Royal Parks Foundation (USA), a charity established to enable America to support the natural history and heritage of London’s Royal Parks. The programme, called Tiffany – Across the Water, focuses on ornamental and drinking fountains in the capital’s eight [...]

 
 

The invention of the modern drinking water fountain

  The modern drinking fountain was invented and then manufactured in the early 1900s by two men and the respective company each man founded: Halsey Willard Taylor and the Halsey Taylor Company; and Luther Haws and the Haws Sanitary Drinking Faucet Co. These two companies changed how water was served in public places. Halsey Taylor’s father [...]

 
 

Halsey Taylor Hydroboost

Drinking Water fountains is proud to introduce the Hydro-boost bottle filling station to its range.This innovative fountain offers hygienic touch free operation with 30 second automatic shut off timer and a qiuck fill rate of 1.5 gallons per hour.The Hydro-boost is available in both chilled and un-chilled models and can be integrated with one of our [...]

 
 

Outdoor Drinking Water Fountains – Chamonix

Another entry in the series of water fountains from around the world. This time from Chamonix, France. Two drinking water fountains in the village of Les Houches. For any more photos please email us on contact@drinkingwaterfountains.co.uk.

 
 

Make Music with our Drinking Water Fountains

Making music with your mates; what could be better than that? Jamming together, feeling the rhythm, showing off your musical skills…unless, of course, you’re melodically challenged, like so many of us. To those people we say, fear not, we have a great, easy solution for you, so that you can be included in all sorts [...]

 
 

Dubai Taxis get their Own Drink Water Fountains

A new initiative running in the city of Dubai will see taxis getting their own versions of drinking water fountains installed in their back seats, to provide much needed refreshment to passengers travelling in the scorching climate. Following a deal signed just a few weeks ago by the Dubai Taxi Corporation, the Roads and Transport [...]

 
 

Dud Drinking Water Fountains for State Workers

A recent report has revealed that the water being drunk by employees stationed at the Department of Transportation’s Ferries Division building in Seattle, being dispensed through the drinking water fountains, is not in fact suitable for ingestion and has not been for quite some time. State officials and maintenance crews discovered that at least nine [...]

 
 

A short History of Drinking Water Fountains

One thing that we know well is just how lucky we are to have drinking water fountains available for our thirst-quenching pleasure, that whenever we’re in need of a drink, there will be something in close vicinity to relieve us. In honour of this, dear readers, we’re giving you a (very) condensed history of drinking [...]