By Andrew Holmes
Recently Audubon high school received a new water fountain, a brand new $900 Elkey refill station water fountain. It will help cut down on the amount of plastic bottles thrown away, and keep the water off the floor, and creating a mess. With not many problems to deal with, the new fountain with its refill station will save time and be safer.
More and more schools are switching to the new fountains because students are no longer using recyclable bottles but rather refillable ones, so the fountains are a more logical choice. Before students had to tip and lean bottles to put water in them, but now with the motion sensor, the fountain will fill bottles upright.
Now that the school has one when the other fountains go out they will replace them with the new versions, with hope they will last just as long. Brad Stroeher, Audubon’s head custodian, said the new fountains would be better in the long run and “it will save a lot of water bottles.”
More and more schools are switching to the new fountains because students are no longer using recyclable bottles but rather refillable ones, so the fountains are a more logical choice. Before students had to tip and lean bottles to put water in them, but now with the motion sensor, the fountain will fill bottles upright.
Now that the school has one when the other fountains go out they will replace them with the new versions, with hope they will last just as long. Brad Stroeher, Audubon’s head custodian, said the new fountains would be better in the long run and “it will save a lot of water bottles.”