: a fixture with nozzle that delivers a stream of water for drinking
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Third graders can choose to spend the next two years at the new, state-of-the-art Forrestal, which replaces the aging existing school building — where lead pipes made the drinking fountains unusable, and featured peeling paint and other defects — when the 2026-27 term begins in August.—Steve Sadin, Chicago Tribune, 4 May 2026 Also planned are an 8- to-10-foot-wide synthetic turf strip, hose bibs, drinking fountains, boulders and log agility features.—Elizabeth Marie Himchak, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Feb. 2026 And even after Rosen sunk somewhere in the neighborhood of $100 million into the building, tenants still complained of mice and dirty water burbling from drinking fountains.—Kim Velsey, Curbed, 3 Feb. 2026 Park drinking fountains shut down beginning Tuesday and will not be available until next week.—Lilly Kersh, Dallas Morning News, 21 Jan. 2026 See All Example Sentences for drinking fountain