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£30,000 Hyde Park fountain aims to sink bottled water craze

Source: UK News from Times Online

Sep 23, 2009

Summary

When the first public drinking fountain was unveiled in London 150 years ago, a large crowd gathered at St Sepulchre’s Church at Snow Hill to witness an engineering marvel that for the first time would provide the city’s poor with cold, clean, fresh water (and, the authorities hoped, would also keep the toiling masses out of the pub).