Water Fountain

Thompson said that UVM's campus has 200 water fountains that can easily be retrofitted with water bottle filling stations like the ones in the Davis Center for about $300 each. "There may be some new fountain locations requiring new plumbing, as is the case in the Waterman building's recent fountain upgrade. Vice President of Finance and Administration Richard Cate estimates that the cost of updating and replacing water fountains throughout campus will be about $100,000. "Other fountains will need to be replaced, costing in the thousands," she said. Though the administration made this decision, Director for the Office of Sustainability Gioia Thompson said that student groups such as Vermont Student Environmental Program (VSTEP) really led the way. money by having better access to chilled drinking water for which they do not have to pay," he. said.

Interestly, Bordeaux happens to be one of Quebec’s twin cities so it is only fitting that it eventually ended up in Quebec as a 400th anniversary gift gift from a man named Peter Simons of La Maison Simons. There are statues of a man and three women on the base of the fountain symbolizing water and four children holding hands representing navigation and fishing.

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