An Old Idea is New Again: Water Fountains

In the United States each year, consumption of bottled water averages 30 gallons per person, and increases ten percent a year, even though plastic bottles are an environmental hazard and, in many cases, tap water is as safe, or even safer, to drink.  Students at a high school in the Bronx are doing their part to reverse that trend by refurbishing the venerable high school water fountain.