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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Paul Farquhar" data-source="post: 9685482" data-attributes="member: 6906155">I'm not sure its particularly obvious even to residents - I suspect younger folk are unaware they were ever common. Public drinking fountains just seem to have faded away (before COVID), I imagine for hygiene reasons. They were there in the 80s. But I can't recall seeing one since. There may still be a few around somewhere.  Bottled water has become pretty ubiquitous instead. Prior to COVID US style water coolers where starting to take off, but they were taken away during COVID and haven't come back.If you look at why in UK English a faucet (US) is called a tap, it comes from tapping (verb) a barrel (i.e. making a hole in it) to get the beer out.</blockquote>