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water fountain

noun

a drinking fountain, water cooler, or other apparatus supplying drinking water.

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“We don’t like to repeat ourselves. This will be a wabi-sabi, minimal vibe. We’ll have nature sounds on the speakers more than rock music, and maybe some water fountains.”

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An opening ceremony that includes a flash mob on the 405, a parade of food trucks down Hollywood Boulevard and dancing water fountains in Echo Park Lake?

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More than 300 water fountains have been installed in the city and there will be access to shaded areas at venues.

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Biden also will meet with faculty and students at a Wilmington school that replaced a water fountain with high levels of lead with funding from the law.

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Those cowboys started to see groups of migrants stranded near the border, so the Chiltons installed water fountains in the desert to help keep people alive.

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A water fountain is a device that ejects a fountainlike stream of water that can be drunk from without a cup.Water fountains are often for public use—they provide access to drinking water in places like government buildings, schools, and parks.There are many different designs for water fountains, but they all generally work by ejecting a jet of water that can be drunk from directly.Water fountains are also commonly called drinking fountains. Less commonly, water fountain can sometimes be used to refer to a water cooler.The term water fountain should not be confused with the kind of fountain that’s mainly for decoration, such as in city plazas, though of course such fountains also use water (but not for drinking).Example: Why would I buy a bottle of water from the vending machine when I could just fill up my water bottle for free from the water fountain?

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