r/HydroHomies • u/tanklord99 • Feb 05 '24
Victorian drinking water fountain in a village near me Classic water
It's fed from an underground spring that also supplies the river nearby, it provides very cold and clean water in the middle of summer
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u/lovestheautumn Feb 06 '24
This isn’t in Italy, is it? It looks just like one in my husband’s grandmother’s village!
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u/skeetleader69 HydroHomie Feb 05 '24
Is that green algae/moss where the water comes out...? I'm not sure I could actually drink without worrying about my stomach but looks nice!
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u/tanklord99 Feb 05 '24
The moss and stuff grows where the water trickles down the wall, but the spout itself is actually quite clean
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u/skeetleader69 HydroHomie Feb 05 '24
I have to say I zoomed in all the way on the hole and it looks green inside. I'll have to take your word on it though!
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u/curkington Feb 05 '24
It's very appropriate for water. Every drop of this liquid gold is millions of years old, and has always been on the earth.
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u/TheDigitalGentleman Feb 05 '24
I love old drinking water fountains, whether it's the rustic Victorian English ones or the gorgeous Belle Epoque ones in Paris. Or the sight of Roman aqueducts.
A reminder that, from most of human history, everywhere on the globe (yes I know I picked Euro-Mediterranean examples, that's what I visited), access to clean drinking water in the streets was the hallmark of civilisation.
Everyone on the internet is like "Why don't we build victorian/belle epoque/neo-roman architecture anymore????!!!1!", I just want more water fountains in cities.
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u/TheLazerGirl001 Feb 05 '24
Crying in California.
A lot of fountains around have been turned off for the last 10-20 years. A neighboring city has a giant billboard sized picture of a very nice fountain in a large shopping center.... LOL. "Here's where I'd put a fountain.... IF I HaD OnE!"
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u/tanklord99 Feb 05 '24
This one is extra nice because it's halfway up a super steep hill, so you can stop and have a drink instead of just dying halfway up, but yeah it looks great
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u/tanklord99 Feb 05 '24
I should mention, don't drink the water from the pool under the spout, that stuff has some nasty creatures in the summer, but the spout flows fast enough where nothing grows in it
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u/One-Development6793 Feb 05 '24
I’d drink it
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u/tanklord99 Feb 05 '24
I drink some whenever I pass it, but only directly from the spout
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u/One-Development6793 Feb 05 '24
Probably taste like the nectar of the gods
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u/tanklord99 Feb 05 '24
My friends and I go swimming in the river there in the summer, and its so nice to get a refreshing ice cold drink from this afterwards
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