Fountains and Primary Schools
Last month, we heard a surge of questions from primary schools about our drinking water fountains. The first of these was from a school in Lincoln who are wanting to be in a position to offer drinking water for all pupils in each classroom. The Victorian primary school was searching to exchange ancient sinks in each room with a clean wall mounted fountain sink. This simple unit has compact dimensions and simply has a bubbler for children to sup from. With wall mounted sinks the drinking water comes straight from the mains supply, is filtered through a water filter if wanted and flows out of the bubbler when a plain button is compressed. The basicmodel of wall mounted sink is lacking a chilling unit and thus the water comes out of the bubbler at mains water temperature. The second inquiry was for an outdoor freestanding water fountain for the centre of a childrens playground. There are numerous fountains made in the UK that are suited to big usage outside conditions. We managed to root out three unique fountains that fitted the remit including one that has been specially evolved for a primary school where the drinking area is at 800mm rather than the 1 metre suited to older beings.
