Drinking water taps

[GingerRock]

Near most loos are a set of taps for washing, which drain into sinks.

Near these are one big tap for filling containers with drinking water. But most of these do not drain into anything, but go straight onto the ground. It seems we can't rely on people using them properly, and not using them for: Washing hair, washing wellies, etc. When they do this, the result is pools/rivers of water/mud, e.g. near them Mandela Bar, flowing down the slope towards the path (treacherous on Sunday).

Could those taps have a drain of some sort beneath them?

Edited June 28, 2011 by GingerRock

[windy_miller]

They've been like this since forever, and i have often wondered the same thing.

Also, the sink taps have a tendency to get stuck on and you end up with a massive waste of water and very muddy ground.

[geebus]

There's often a load of stones underneath the taps for filling containers etc - however I suspect with them being used for cleaning muddy stuff, there's going to be pretty much nothing that can be done to stop it, because any kind of drain will quickly fill up with mud anyway.

[ukslim]

Any affordable drain would quickly get clogged with mud.

I think the rivers are tolerable to be honest. They're usually easier to walk through than the drier mud.

[DeanoL]

I do wonder about these - they're designed for filling water bottles, but like most taps on site they have those things on them that supposedly act as water-savers by making the water sort of spray out in a hollow tube shape rather than a regular stream. And that shape is larger than the diameter of a water bottle top.

Can't help but think this wastes more water than it saves...

[uscore]

The taps were great I thought. Mornings especially were a splendid time to come down and wash your hair or brush your teeth by running water. Some losers would do those things by their tents! Yes there were queues because of this but if they only installed 10,000 more sinks around the site then this would stop being a problem.

[ianianian]

Maybe if they had some sort of barrel-trough thing under those taps then the boot cleaning brigades would be happy to just dip their booted feet in the pool of water and rinse them around a bit, rather than running the taps.

[doogleduck]

The river down the side of the path between Pennard and the Park was amazing, it was flowing through tents. People had made some pretty ingenious barricades.

[rachmac]

The large water bottle tap near where I was camped (top of Dairy) gave you more or less 5 litres of water from one press of the tap - that means for everyone washing their hair/wellies (wellies really wound me up - just making things worse) they were wasting at least 5 litres of water and if you washed your hair pressing the tap twice - 10 litres!

I know turn on/turn off taps have the likelihood of being left on, but I just wonder whether they'd help to save water in the hope most would use the sensibly!

[gizmoman]

The large water bottle tap near where I was camped (top of Dairy) gave you more or less 5 litres of water from one press of the tap - that means for everyone washing their hair/wellies (wellies really wound me up - just making things worse) they were wasting at least 5 litres of water and if you washed your hair pressing the tap twice - 10 litres!

I know turn on/turn off taps have the likelihood of being left on, but I just wonder whether they'd help to save water in the hope most would use the sensibly!

[LusciousLucy]

I noticed a far higher percentage of broken taps this year. Some never turned off and even in the kids field there were taps where only 2 still had handles on