With the CDC calling for the replacement of high-touch, communal fixtures, such as water fountains, to reduce the spread of COVID-19, the Minersville Area School District in eastern Pennsylvania today announced that FloWater Touchless Refill Stations has been installed in its elementary and high schools to replace out-of-date water fountains. The availability of touchless, foot…
COLTON (CBSLA) – In another sign of how the coronavirus pandemic has changed sanitation and hygiene, the Colton Joint Unified School District announced Wednesday that it has replaced all its school water fountains with touchless water refill stations. The district announced that the refill stations were installed at all 28 schools and its administrative offices.…
In the 1990s, I recall my grandfather remarking upon the new ubiquity of plastic water bottles, “When did everybody get so thirsty all of a sudden?” Indeed, plastic bottles have been proliferating at an exponential rate since the 1970s – the US alone is responsible for tens of billions of single-use plastic bottle waste every…