In this 1938 image, a Black boy uses a fountain marked 'colored' at a North Carolina county courthouse. Getty Images No one knows for certain when public facilities like bathrooms and drinking ...

A crackle of sulfur-crested cockatoos in Western Sydney have figured out how to grab a drink from a park water fountain. Now, they've learnt how to use twist-handle water fountains, which require a ...

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Drinking fountains are a thing of the past at the Fresno Fair. There was only one left this year and it has been removed. Still, there are places to get a free drink of water.

Flint Community Schools unveiled new drinking fountains this week, installed with funding from Elon Musk. Musk donated $480,000 to the Flint school district in 2018 to help take on the Flint Water ...

It was a cruel joke. The sun beat down on me while I reached for my water bottle held in the frame of my bicycle. It was empty. My mouth felt instantly drier. Then, to my right, I saw a small park ...

SEATTLE - Only 20% of drinking fountains are turned on at Seattle parks as the city faces a potentially historic and dangerous heat wave in the coming days, officials said. The fountains usually are ...

New Yorkers may have an easier time finding public drinking fountains on steamy summer days thanks to a bill passed by the City Council last week that will require the Parks Department to add 50 new ...

Children attending older California schools are in danger of exposure to lead-tainted water because drinking fountains and faucets have not been tested for unsafe levels of the toxic metal. Lead ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) -- Lead is a potent environmental neurotoxin, and there is no safe level for exposure. So eight years ago, when Pittsburgh Public Schools found lead in the water students were ...

AUSTIN, Texas — Over the past several weeks, Austin Water installed two new public drinking fountains downtown. Last year, Austin Water budgeted about $750,000 in order to install a total of 10 ...