Global Push for Free Drinks

 Istanbul plans to restore 40 public fountains each year. Excerpt from the full article:

"Cities such as London, San Francisco, and Melbourne have made installing new water fountains part of their strategy for fighting obesity, especially among children. Environmental concerns have been another major instigator of the resurgent interest in public drinking fountains, in part because they promote climate resilience by helping residents cope with more frequent heatwaves. Public fountains also provide an alternative to the enormous plastic waste and high energy cost associated with bottled water; by one measure, more than 1 million plastic bottles of water are sold globally every minute."

The June 11, 1859 edition of the New York Times noted a new amenity in the city.

Source: The New York Times Archive, from the article above.