Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, all of Windsor's 18 outdoor public drinking water fountains have been switched off, along with nearly 200 others located inside city buildings and city-run facilities. Kate Mulligan, director of policy and communications at the Alliance for Healthier Communities in Toronto, says there is no valid argument why cities should remove public drinking water fountains due to COVID-19. Mulligan, who is also an assistant professor at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto, said she's read the infection prevention and control measures that are used for public drinking water fountains across Ontario. After reading these protocols, she said her understanding is the risk of getting COVID-19 from public water fountains is "quite low." "We don't know that if drinking water from a water fountain would put you at a risk of COVID," Ahmed said.

Source: CBC News August 27, 2020 10:52 UTC