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Topic: Water fountains dying out on Canadian campuses
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freshwatermermaid
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posted 09 September 2008 04:12 AM
Don't know if anyone paid much attention a few short months ago when Concordia University here in Montreal fell all over themselves touting the 40th anniversary of the Simone de Beauvoir Institute and the department of women's studies. It is one of the best women's studies programs in the country and is affiliated with the international institute.How is this relevant to water fountains? Because as much as Concordia wants to be lauded with feminist credibility, my compatriots and I attend a department in what is possibly the only building in Montreal without potable water. I'm told the water coolers (giant bottles of water, not winning over my green side) that are now in the building had to be lobbied for. There are two soda machines all with canned liquid sugar that costs over a dollar. As the monstrous curtain walls go up on the multi-million dollar John Molson school of business, I must ask myself how many coolers will be needed to service them.
From: Montreal | Registered: Dec 2007
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lagatta
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posted 09 September 2008 07:36 AM
They could simply change the shape of the water fountains, making them little taps that one would stick a bottle or cup under (designed in such a way that people couldn't put their lips on them). There are some taps like that beside classic water fountains at UQAM. I'm not a germophobe, but I do notice a fair number of dogs among the water-fountain users at Parc Jarry near here. Now, I like dogs very much, but we all know that they are not precisely the most fastidious of beings with respect to what they will lick or ingest. Perhaps an automatic dog-water-bowl on a lower level?
From: Se non ora, quando? | Registered: Apr 2002
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