Berlin’s mayor tries to wean Germans off the H20 bottle

Public drinking fountains are surprisingly rare in Germany, a country that prides itself on environmentalism, innovation and universal access to basic necessities. But Müller and his colleagues hope to change that, setting an eco-friendly example for other German cities by adding 100 new fountains to the roughly 50 already in the Berlin capital.   WaPo

There was a young woman from Kiel

who shunned bottled water's appeal.

She drank from the curb,

which soon did disturb

her liver and lights at each meal.