Is it true that drinking fountains recycle water that runs past your mouth?

Subject: Is it true that drinking fountains recycle water that runs past your mouth?

Date: Sun Jul 30 22:04:18 2000
Posted by Nancy Wildes
Grade level: grad (science) School: none
City: Honolulu State/Province: HI Country: US
Area of science: Engineering
ID: 965009058.Eg

Message:


When you drink from a public water fountain, the water that runs past your 
mouth goes down a little drain.  I've heard that this is not a drain, but 
that the water goes back into the cooling tank.  How does the water 
fountain really work?

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