When I was working at my temp job from hell last year and for nine months, I would take my lunch walks around the block. At one corner intersection near the VTA light rail system, there was a water fountain. It was three columns of spouting water.
But as with most decorative piece of modern engineering, it is NOT functional. All it does is sit there and look pretty for any onlookers willing to take a moment out of their hectic lives and appreciate by taking the time to stop and hear up close a babbling and splashing sounds.
Alas, I do NOT see any wild life coming near this fountain of water. It has chemicals meant to kill unwanted but natural growing algae. This is what is lacking in our society: FREE water for the wild life and homeless people alike.
Instead, modernized water is recycled or reclaimed instead of being “spring-like” and alive. This water is dead and lifeless.
Leave a Reply