reverse osmosis water fountains should be provided at airports

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They make you ditch any water and your only option is to buy bottled water that one creates more plastic waste and two means you have to buy vastly over priced water. Gets my goat. Family of four that's often 10-18 pounds extra.

These might be the health risks talked about...

*Many reverse osmosis systems remove the good with the bad. Iron, calcium, manganese, and fluoride are a few of the beneficial chemicals that may be removed, depending on your system. Removing these essential elements from our drinking water doesn't pose much of a problem, since a well-rounded diet will provide these as well. However, many Americans do not eat a diet that is rich in vitamins and minerals. If these people also drink demineralized water, then they are more prone to vitamin and mineral deficiency.

Additionally, when used for cooking, demineralized water was found to cause substantial losses of all essential elements from foods such as vegetables, meat and cereals. Such losses may reach up to 60 percent for magnesium and calcium, 66 percent for copper, 70 percent for manganese, and 86 percent for cobalt. In contrast, when hard water (not treated with reverse osmosis) is used for cooking, there is minimal loss of these essential elements.*

...I agree it probably isn't relevant if you only drink it when you travel though.

Wow aren't you hostile!?

Blimey OP.

You know what kind of cunt someone are just from them saying "Don't fly then"?

You're clearly very special.

I do think tap water should be readily available but there is really no need to faff about with poncey "reverse osmosis" fountains.

Good luck persuading airport operators in the parts of the world where tap water is dodgy to install a RO filter and chilled drinking fountain. If their tap water is dangerous to health I doubt your fountain is their primary focus.

::guffaws::

I've never been to Oslo airport, but a quick google 'drinking water oslo airport' says you can fill your bottle for free.

A little more googling indicates that 'there were clearly marked drinking water taps in some toilets at Copenhagen Airport.'

Why don't you have a sugar sandwich OP?

That'll maybe help.

Good luck persuading airport operators in the parts of the world where tap water is dodgy to install a RO filter and chilled drinking fountain. If their tap water is dangerous to health I doubt your fountain is their primary focus.

Countries like Portugal?

What a strange thread

Good luck persuading airport operators in the parts of the world where tap water is dodgy to install a RO filter and chilled drinking fountain. If their tap water is dangerous to health I doubt your fountain is their primary focus.

Doesn't help if you've been rushed one way through a gate and passport control and can't go back to it when your locked at a gate. How about more than one source of drinking water at a major airport?

Garwick While this means you can't carry much in the way of drinking water, 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.

Op has said she is sitting at the airport after a 4 hour delay (and counting?). I would guess that explains the op feeling particularly strongly at the minute.

Yanbu that there should be free water but RO is ott. Also, if your delay is over a certain length of time you get vouchers so could buy water or get tap water with a meal.

Most airports let me take water on when the kids were toddlers (I had to taste it) but now they are bigger I can't.

You can also buy those little roll up water holders if you don't fancy carrying a big bottle around.

But yeah, this thread is weird.

Hope you get off the ground soon op

Well I've read some shit in my time but this is shit with sparkles and extra sugar on.

Just buy some bloody water you tightwad.

AHEM

Exactly. Plenty of cheap foldable and collapsible bottles around.
And a bottle of water from Superdrug doesn't cost much.
I can imagine that it's perfectly possible to hydrate yourself sufficiently so you don't expire on a flight back from Portugal.

Is that a chilled, filtered, reverse osmosis "ahem", Olivia...?

I think we sometimes take far too much for granted our first-world privilege of free (or at least, very cheap) potable water gushing from our taps. The OP whining about tap water not being the right temperature fgs let alone the RO thing.

Just at the moment I'm particularly aware of how fortunate we are, being in the bit of Lancashire with possible cryptosporidium contamination and having to boil or use bottled anyway.

If you're in a country where you'd have to use bottled anyway as a visitor, then for sure you shouldn't expect free water inside airport security - by definition the territory of the privileged.

genuinely torn between reporting the OP's cunty post or letting it stand as is.

I must say, I have never noticed water fountains in any airports I have been to, but in fairness, I haven't specifically been looking for them.

We try to bring bottled water on to flights, as the water is even more expensive on board.

Darn - it's gone already.

I think it would be a good idea to give some indication of where you have had trouble getting safe drinking water. Most people here are responding from their own experience, a large proportion of that experience will be in UK airports where in my experience potable water is either obtainable free or at a reasonable price. I've also just come through Keflavik airport where ice water was free from the bar (there were large jugs which people were filling bottles from). Have you tried asking for a glass of water in a bar in which ever airport you are stuck? Once you are on the plane there should be no shortage of water available.