Author Archives: Ben Kay

Dear WWE, Harry Troedel forwarded me your details in regards to Melbourne’s move towards becoming a disposable water-bottle free campus.  Thanks very much for helping us out by putting all of our drinking water fountains in your app. I will … Continue reading →

Here are two documentaries on the planet’s use of water. The first, Flow, examines the importance of water and the consequences of future shortages: The second is called Blue Gold and it looks at the possibility of water becoming a … Continue reading →

One of the most satisfying things about Water Water Everywhere is the degree to which it has inspired other people to become involved, taking the project on and helping it to grow in ways we hadn’t even thought of. The … Continue reading →

We were in Selfridges today and came across this: It’s a big installation/ad/public service announcement in the middle of London’s second most famous department store. Its purpose is to sell Sodastream, but if that motive leads to things like this … Continue reading →

Here’s a post from the San Francisco Chronicle highlighting the new ‘tap water refilling stations’ that the city has recently provided. It’s a written with a kind of snooty bemusement, but we’re just going to ignore that and look at … Continue reading →

A few people sent us this article from yesterday’s Guardian. ‘So will you all stop carrying round those little bottles of water and sipping from them during meetings? Because now we know it’s all cobblers, it’s going to be even … Continue reading →

Here’s a guest post from Alex at Quench (blog here) Take a Stand – Ban the Bottle. Each day more cities, universities, companies and the like are taking a stand against bottled water as a worldwide campaign to ban the … Continue reading →

In today’s Observer, columnist Barbara Ellen takes drinkers of bottled water to task: Experts say that there is no health benefit to drinking eight glasses of water a day. Now they tell us, after decades of nagging that constantly glugging … Continue reading →

This morning the Water water Everywhere app received a list of 265 water fountains in central and suburban Melbourne, supplied by the Melbourne City Council. So the fountains look like this: And the map looks like this: Now we’re looking … Continue reading →

Here at Water Water Everywhere we do like a fizzy drink, but that want does seem to be somewhat at odds with our feelings about the waste and damage caused by bottled water. But then it occurred to us that … Continue reading →