Free tap water with Refill London

This is an essential scheme and should be rolled out everywhere as soon as possible. I remember wanting some water near Buckingham Palace and refusing to pay the £2.50 they wanted for a bottle!

Of course we should have this scheme London-wide and in as many places as possible. I have been carrying my own refillable bottle for years and it would be great to have more places to refill it. Parks used to have fountains when I was a child - can we bring those back into use too?

I think that promoting the use of tap water of a good quality is a good idea. However many cities are battling with water shortages and the UK has had issues in the past with droughts. In making water available, we need to do it in a way that makes people value water as with other natural resources and not squander it, filling bottles they do not need, leaving taps running, using drinking water for tasks that waste water could be used for. The other thing we should do is promote reusable glass or other containers in place of plastic bottles which create a waste problem, create litter and also have health concerns as reports show plastic particles are transmitted to the water. Maybe a strengthened glass coated with an anti biotic treatment could be used for semi permanent water bottles or even certain types of metal as are used in some cycle races.

In my youth, many years ago, there were water fountains or drinking points in many spots around london. Can’t remember why they were abandoned perhaps to do with transmission of disease?? Time to revive these points to start.

Excellent, the more places the better and the perfect solution to stop people buying water in plastic bottles.
I remember in my youth there were drinking fountains in public places such as town centres, parks, seaside resorts and playgrounds.
Local authorities should food the bill to supply the public water fountains and the water boards make such huge profits from their customers that they should be forced to supply the water free of charge, about time the put something back into the communities.
It could also be incorporated that new business also provide a water fountain in their properties especially the larger companies and chains.

Yes, a good idea. However, water in does lead to water out, and it is more important to me that all of these water holes also allow the public to have enthusiastic access to well maintained and clean toilet facilities. Indeed, local councils should be encouraging this rather than the more common occurrence of closing down or time limiting facilities that already exist.

This is such an excellent idea - hope it gets great support and can spread to other areas.

All of that water has got to go somewhere, so how about aligning this scheme with the introduction of free public toilet facilities?

There must be millions of people fed up with having to sneak into a Macdonalds or some similar establishment in order to use their "facilities" whenever they are caught short.

Getting water in London is ridiculous. It is all about money money money. Often, the ONLY solution is to buy water; this is especially true and pernicious for tourists.

If you walk around most European cities, there are free fountains. If you go to a tourist city like Rome, they are on most corners.

If you go to any American airport there are frequent drinking water fountains. I cannot recall ANY free drinking water in ANY of the London airports I use. They just want to sell you water - instant plastic waste. The cop-out that you can ask any of the food outlets at the airport is just pathetic. People have pride, they do not want to beg for favours.

London should be proactive on water, not mercenary. It takes enough from people already.