Is there a website to find points to get tap water at airports?

5/25/2017 12:30:28 PM

In many countries even if they don’t want to fill your bottle in a cafe¹, especially somewhere closed like an airport they (have to or will) give you a glass of tap water. With a steady hand you can pour it into your bottle. This is even easier if you’re buying a coffee or eating a meal.

¹Once they start saying it’s for hygiene reasons it’s not worth arguing with them.

5/25/2017 1:05:27 PM

There is now a website wateratairports.com that aims to inform travellers what free drinking fountains are available in which airport departures, it has just started so it needs your help in finding them, there is no catch.

I created the site because I am fed up with the high price of buying water in airports, I travel regularly through Malaga airport where a bottle of water cost 2€ in departures and the same bottle is 0.75€ in the town. When you click on “reply” it will ask you to “login or register” a green box should open on the top right of your screen, you cannot add a new topic ( airport ) please do this in the general / comments about this website topic.

6/1/2016 5:03:55 PM

There is always a place where you can get water for free.

  • The easiest and most obvious solution is finding a water fountain, or a drinking water tap.
  • Walk up to a bar. Ask them to refill it, and most of the bars will refill it (for free) without hesitation. Once they even added ice (spontaneously) because it was a hot day with a lot of delays. They have never denied my request (European airports). They will never ask you if they can refill anything, they’ll never advertise “free refills here”. They want you to buy, but you can still get it for free if you ask. You sort of “have to know you can ask it”.
  • Refill it at a water tap in the toilets. (It’s always drinkable in Europe as far as I know, and I suppose the same goes for the US/Canada)

Backstory on the free water in bars:
In a lot of cases they are obligated to refill your bottle, or there is no excuse for them not to. For example in Belgium, whenever you get a connection to flowing water, you’re getting an amount of “free” water. This is because you’re expected to give others access to water if they ask you for it. This also has to do with “access to water” being a human right.

Affordable. Water, and water facilities and services, must be affordable for all.

(United nations Human right for water, see also the previously linked article about free water in the UK http://www.uk-airport-news.info/gatwick-airport-news-140705.htm)

In the rare case you can’t get access to free water, I would complain. They’ll likely find it easier to just refill your bottle of water, instead of dealing with the complaining and possible bad PR.

Sources: personal expierience, frequent flyer

6/1/2016 3:03:08 PM

I think that websites displaying water fountain locations is probably asking a bit much of any public facility.

Water is now available in some UK airports free of charge, after calls from a watchdog;

A spokesman for airport operator BAA said drinking fountains offering free water were already installed at Heathrow, Gatwick, Stansted and Southampton airports, and Glasgow, Edinburgh and Aberdeen are in the process of having water fountains fitted.

I can’t provide you with a link to a website giving you maps of water points, because I cannot find any, they may not exist.

A quick Google search (other search engines are available) should tell you if your airport provides free water at drinking fountains.

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