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ew single-use cups
No filtered room temp option is the real crime.
We need a community called “Capitalism Gone Wild”.
This is the kind of thing I find enraging to the point of vandalism.
vandalism against large corporations is beautiful and moral
“REE” is right. I have a 10 pound sledge that can fix this RIGHT up. Just doin’ my part for humanity.
WaaS
HAHAHAAHHAHHHAHHAH
The pinnacle of innovation if you ask me.
It’s 100% the same water
They add lead to the free side.
Tap water all the time
To be fair: if this design was the price for free water everywhere I would pay for it. I want a world where I can get free drinking water everywhere so I don’t have to carry it.
When I was in Rome there were just public water fountains everywhere. Good quality water, accessible to everyone.
Meanwhile my shitty little European town has recently installed a fountain for drinking, filling up your bottle and also with a dog drink station, completely free.
They have those at a lot of parks that I take my dogs to in my state in the US too. Usually free poop bags too, and yet half still can’t be bothered.
Why does it say “Woof Woof Bow Wow” on the dog bowl, if I may ask?
So that dogs can understand its purpose.
Where I live in Canada has started turning fire hydrants into free drinking fountains during the summer for the last couple of years.
I am from Europe and that is not the norm.
I am from Europe and it is the norm where I live
Maybe Europe is a big place 🤔
I live in Europe and its so large I can’t see any border from my house
“Free”
Nothing is free
Someone paid for the fountain. Either you, your neighbor, your friend, or your fellow countryman. But someone.
Why nickel and dime everyone that is probably never going to even see the fountain instead of letting the people that want/need pay for it?
Cold filtered water at just a single park you regularly go to is probably worth 3 bucks a month.
If extra money went to park improvements, that would be even better.
I don’t see why everyone wants “free” when it’s just a hidden cost that you’re probably paying anyways. Yes, probably costs more for the people that use the service more, but that’s the way it should be.
Personally I’d rather save 20 dollars on my taxes and bring water to the park. Even still tap water is just fine.
Why would I even want to pay 5 dollars more in taxes so someone doesn’t have to bring a water bottle?
This is a premium service that shouldn’t be the burden of the taxpayer.
Man, lotta vague libertarian energy here, but to answer your question:
Why nickel and dime everyone that is probably never going to even see the fountain instead of letting the people that want/need pay for it?
In general, the answer to this usually boils down to one of two answers:
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choosing instead to directly nickel and dime people at the point of service comes with overhead and is wildly inefficient. You want to add an internet connection to every public water fountain? Or at the very least wire them with electricity to power some kind of vending machine system? Or perhaps have a person standing there to charge people? Someone will have to pay extra for any additional steps in what could otherwise just be, well, a simple faucet.
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More often than not, the people that need things the most are not the people who can pay for them. These people still need to survive, because letting the poor suffer and die will still cost you and everyone else money.
And study after study shows that when we all pay a little to help people in general, we can all save a lot in, say, street sanitization, law enforcement, healthcare services, etc. Things that you have to provide especially if people can’t afford it.
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I am afraid to ask, but why do you hate society and your fellow countrymen so much? If the idea of taxes being used to help people fills you with so much rage, then I hope you have access to free mental health so you can figure out why you hate people so much
“Rugged individualism”
…until they actually need help, of course.
I understand this may come as a shock to you, but the world does not revolve around the comfort of individuals. Why do people like you throw such a hissy fit when your taxes goes to bettering people’s lives around you? Where’s your outrage for all the ways our Tax Dollars are actually wasted? Your selfish mindset does more to harm society than prevent any form of waste; you’re just acting entitled over nothing.
This is one of the most American comments I’ve ever seen.
Oh boy never look as the defense budget.
Water is a basic human right. You think $20 is going to water fountains? Its probably half a cent of your taxes.
As for what was the op, its probably nothing in taxes as the company plans to make money off the chilled and filtered to offset the cost of installing the units. The government your taxes pay for probably mandated the free tap to let them install them.
Americans when their taxes are given to billionaires through kepto defense contracts or when billions are given to Israel to fund genocide: …😴…zzzzzzzzzz…😴…zzzzzz…😴
Americans when taxes are used to help people: 😡😡😡😡😡
Americans when taxes are used to help the wrong people.
FTFY
Because access to clean water is a human right. No one is gonna die if the water is warm but someone will die if they don’t have water.
@Sludgeyy@lemmy.world, You need to legitimately check yourself. So many half-ass comments get put up without taking a second of researching before you spout off “knowledge”… I’m guessing you’re considering this “Common Sense”? So you don’t have to actually look into it and test your inner resolve to accept new information.
Make Public Drinking Water Fountains Great Again
A gallon of tap water from typical municipal water systems costs about half a cent, making drinking fountains the cheapest hydration source available in public spaces…
it remains far cheaper than the cost of bottled water, which typically ranges from $1 to $5 per gallon, or about 200 to 1,000 times more than tap water. (High-end bottled waters can be even far more costly.) These costs do not include the environmental costs of the bottled water industry.
A great side benefit: having to test and maintain public water sources for pollutants that residents might not know to report!
comprehensive testing of drinking fountains, implementation of standard protocols for fountain maintenance, and a nationwide effort to replace old water infrastructure, which can be the source of lead and other contaminants.
This is a ROI (return on investment) done right on a community level. Encourage the kids to have a reusable water bottle or give that junky plastic bottle a 2nd use. You do know that kids in a park will go through a water bottle right? Are you buying packages of plastic water bottles for 1,000x the price the fountain could give you!?!?!
I guarantee you, your neighbor, your friend, and your countrymen, that your community and children are saving money and the environment while taking a positive stance to educate and properly use our countries resources for it’s citizens. Please stop spreading misinformation like the** 20$!!!**(made up number in your head) and realize this is what taxes are actually for, things that actually help it’s citizens and reduces the cost of living.
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What a crazy take
Freedoms are seeping out of your pockets, you should get that checked.
“Reefill” sounds like something out of a wojak meme.
“I’m reefilling my water bottle with mineral water from 1000m deep!” - the reefiller wojak
It more sounds like you’re making fun of their intelligence: oh, you’re going for a REEEEEfill?
at my university I can tap chilled water for free!
Want $0.25 in your account monthly?
Introducing sink water! It has been treated with hand sanitizer, soaps, human waste including semen parts, shed skin particles, mucus, dandruff, sweat, spit, ear wax, blood, pee, and feces!
This photo is about 8 years old now. I’m pretty certain Reefill did not succeed as a product or a company. It barely got crowdfunded and then fizzled out a year later.
While the apps are still in store, there doesn’t seem to be any website except for an indiegogo, and the Techcrunch article is from '17.
Maybe they should have focussed their efforts on carbonated water to combat the fizzle
I bet that internally the mechanism must be like this
Reminds me of when I saw a Mountain Spring Water filling station ornamented with a picture of a snow-capped mountain at a Wal-Mart about 500 miles from the nearest mountain and nearly 2k miles from the nearest snow-capped mountain. The thing had pipes out the back going into the wall. That was straight city water that maybe that dispenser filtered a little more if it was properly maintained.
A good filter can do wonders.
Living in an area with very hard water, yes.
Nah, you’d notice if the water wasn’t chilled.
The real trick is to build these in places where the tap water is naturally cold, and to heat the free stuff.
Wait isn’t tap water always naturally cold?
Nope. Especially not in Texas in the summertime. The pipes are close enough to the surface that they warm up (unless you have well water, which is always cold).
Weird. Where I live they bury it eight feet deep so it doesn’t freeze in the winter so it’s constantly chilly.
Yeah but you live in hell
You can always put more clothes on. You can only get so naked
Thats definetely a health hazard. If the water stands long enough to get warm, it will get infected sooner or later.
Doesnt matter so much for the sistance between the main water pipe and your tap, byt after a holiday you should definetly let some water run until it comes out cold again.
City water is chlorinated though
Thats definetely a health hazard
You mean the haphazard handling of drinking water or Texas in general? You’re right either way 🤷
Water comes out of my tap at 103f ok the summer , Arizona.
And degazify if it’s naturally sparkly.
