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This is simply not true, especially the part about 'pretty much the world'

Name any commercial or international airport without water fountains.

All of the ones in China? I dont remember any there but maybe I was just used to not seeing any anywhere else in the country so I wasnt looking for them.

I also dont recall drinking fountains in Phnom Penh or Saigon's airports.

Beijing airport had water fountains despite the water not being good to drink and traditional Chinese culture having a stigma against drinking cold water.

Every train station and airport I've been in in my three years here has had a place to get hot water. If you want cold water in a train station you'll have to buy it bottled but Pudong airport in Shanghai has water fountains outside most of the bathrooms as well. I've never flown out of any other Chinese airports.

I remember that the hot/cold water tap was hidden inside the smoker's area in Guangdong, but it was there and plenty of people used it. I'm not sure if they offered free paper cups or if you had to bring your own bottle (which I always do).

Shanghai, Beijing and Guangzhou airport definitely have water fountains.

So I'm not sure what you are talking about. Maybe some of the smaller regional ones?

I don't know how it is these days, but the last time I flew through London (maybe 5–7 years ago), I had to connect from LHR to LGW. In one of them (I think LGW), I went searching for a water fountain and couldn't find one. I finally asked an employee, who told me there weren't any.

Not true. There is one (there must be by law). They don't have to tell you where it is though.

> Not true.

I didn't say that there wasn't one (now or then), only that I couldn't find one, and that an employee told me there wasn't one—and both those facts are true.

There is on just after security to the right in the north terminal and it's been there for at least 5 years.

Also... "Responding to Prof Colbourne's comments, a spokesman for airport operator BAA said drinking fountains offering free water were already installed at Heathrow, Gatwick, Stansted and Southampton airports."

This is from 2002... http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-355500/Free-water-...

Not true... LHR has them in every toilet

http://www.heathrowairport.com/static/Heathrow/Downloads/PDF...

Gatwick: "once you're through security, you can use our water fountains or any of our food outlets will be happy to provide you with a glass of tap water."

http://www.gatwickairport.com/at-the-airport/flying-out/secu...

I don't recall any in the Venice airport.

Dublin, or at least the non-Schengen bit of it. Even the restroom taps are set to warm water only.

One potential hack around this is to find the disabled bathroom, which usually has taps with adjustable water temperature,

The non-Schengen part of Dublin Airport, you mean, all of it?

Ireland is not in the Schengen area

If the Irish lived in Holland, they'd drown, If the Dutch lived in Ireland, they'd feed the world.

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