Parched City (41 page)
Authors: Emma M. Jones
Conclusions and Questions
1
.
Free access to drinking water across London
, p. 1.
2
.
Initiative for free access to drinking water across London
, Mayor’s delivery programme, ‘Meeting The Vision, Clause 2, Retrieved from
http://www.london.gov.uk
19th October 2011.
3
. Interview recorded with John Mills, 2nd June 2010.
4
.
Securing London’s Water Future: The Mayor’s Water Strategy
(London: Greater London Authority, 2011) Executive Summary, p. 15.
5
. Ibid. p. 66.
6
.
The London Plan: Spatial Development Strategy for Greater
London 2011
(London: Greater London Authority, 2011) clause 3.86, p. 103 and Policy 7.5, Public realm p. 215.
7
. Telephone interview recorded with Sara Lom, 28th October 2011.
8
.
Royal Parks Foundation Drinking Fountain Open International
Design Competition
(Competition
Brief)
, The Royal Parks Foundation in partnership with Tiffany and Co. Foundation, June 2010, p. 3.
9
.
Two British Designers win International Competition to find
‘Ultimate Drinking Fountain’
, The Royal Parks Foundation / Tiffany ¦ Co. Foundation, undated, retrieved from Royal Parks Foundation website 14th March 2011.
10
. Restored by Julian Harrap architects.
11
. Transcribed directly from the fountain.
12
.
Royal Parks Foundation Drinking Fountain Open International
Design Competition
, p.6.
13
. Metropolitan Cattle Trough and Drinking Fountain Association Annual Report, 1949, ACC/3168/100 p. 8.
14
. St Pancras was designed by Chapman Taylor and King’s Cross by John McAslan + Partners.
15
.
HM Prison Service sanitaryware specification
, (Staffordshire: Armitage Shanks, 2003) Use of two drinking fountain types is listed as ‘throughout establishment’ p. 4.
16
.
http://www.findafountain.org
, data confirmed by Rachel Jeremiah of Find-A-Fountain, by email, 26th January 2012.
17
.
Viewpoint: Concord, you can give up bottled water
, BBC News, 30th June 2010 Retrieved 30th April 2012,
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10444394.
18
.
‘There’s no benefit to drinking bottled water’
, Guardian Environment podcast, Rebecca Smithers, Thursday 21st February 2008, listened 7th September 2010.
19
.
How can we reduce the carbon footprint of the city by using drinking water fountains?
Roberto Alejandro Cantu Gomez, MA Urban Design dissertation, University of Westminster, 2011, p. 9.
20
. Ibid. p. 43.
21
.
‘A Paper on Drinking Fountains’ read in the Health Department of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science
, Charles Melly, October 1858 (Geo. Smith, Watts and Co, printers, 1858) pp. 9–10.
22
.
The Water Business: Corporations Versus People
, Ann-Christin Sjölander Holland (London: Zed Books, 2005) p.15.
23
.
How can we reduce the carbon footprint of the city by using drinking water fountains?
p. 46.
24
. Ibid. 58.
25
. Thames Water Utilities Limited, Annual report and financial statements for the year ended 31st March 2011 (Reading: Thames Water, 2011), p. 33, downloaded from Thames Water’s website 2nd August 2012 /
Thames Water boss awarded large bonus criticised
, BBC News (Business) website, 11th June 2012, retrieved 2nd August 2012.
26
.
Big Water: Everyday Water: A Sociotechnical Perspective
.
27
.
Liquid Pleasures
, p. 27.
28
.
The London Plan: Spatial Development Strategy for Greater
London 2011
, pp. 251, 257 and 307.
29
. Conversations with Barbara Penner, Alexandra Goddard and Susannah Jordan, August-September 2012 plus my own
attendance of a Wembley Stadium Olympic Games event
30
.
A blueprint for change:
London 2012 Sustainability report, April 2012 (London: London 2012) p. 55.
31
.
UN ‘should take blame for Haiti cholera’ - US House members
, Mark Doyle, BBC NEWS website, Latin America and Caribbean, 20th July 2012, retrieved 7th September 2012 /
Health response to the earthquake in Haiti January 2010
, Claude de Ville de Goyet, Juan Pablo Sarmiento and François Grünewald (Washington: Pan American Health Organisation, 2011) Key Findings, No. 5, p. 178.
32
.
The Water Manifesto: Arguments for a World Water Contract
, Riccardo Petrella (London: Zed, 2001) p. 93.
33
. Ibid. p. 25: ‘Dublin Declaration’ on
Water in a Perspective of
Sustainable Development
, International Conference on Water and Environment, January 1992, See also pp. 65–66.
34
. Ibid. p. 93.
35
.
The right to water (arts. 11 and 12 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights)
, General Comment 15, E/C.12/2002/11, 20th January 2003 (Geneva: United Nations 2002) Introduction, clauses 1 and 3.
36
. Ibid. clause 1.
37
. Ibid. II Normative Content of the Right to Water, clause 12, i)
Physical accessibility
.
38
.
Workplace health, safety and welfare: A short guide for managers
(The Stationery Office/Health and Safety Executive, 2011) p. 6.
39
.
Viewpoint: Concord, you can give up bottled water
, BBC News.
40
.
Bottled and Sold: The Story Behind Our Obsession With Bottled
Water
, Peter H. Gleick (Washington: Island Press, 2010) p. 3.
41
. Ibid. p. 175.
42
.
Bottlemania
, Elizabeth Royte (New York: Bloomsbury, 2008) p.33.
43
.
Tapped
, Dir. Stephanie Soechtig, Atlas Films, 2009.
44
. Metropolitan Drinking Fountain and Cattle Trough
Association Minute Book, November 1871, ACC/3168/002, London Metropolitan Archives.
45
. Translation provided by Sophia Akbar.
46
.
Agua que has de beber
blog posting,
Luzinterruptus.com
, 9th February 2012, Accessed 7th May 2012.
47
. ‘About the event’ page, ‘9th Global Bottled Water Congress’ website information (Barcelona, Spain), Zenith Inter- national,
http://www.zenithinternational.com
, Accessed 7th July 2012.
48
. Ibid.
Green Light for Bottled Water
conference information, planned for Wednesday 7th November 2012, Accessed Zenith International website 17th July 2012.
49
. Ibid.
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