# Water Fountains

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/water-fountains/1022287>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [August 19, 2025, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/water-fountains/1022287 "2025-08-19T20:39:57Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2025, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/water-fountains/1022287/41 "2025-08-21T14:33:23Z")

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Mine was tap water. The tap water at Banff may have been the best water I’ve ever drunk.

In my experience, everywhere in the world cares about carrying liquids into airplanes. I was recently stopped in Denmark because i hadn’t removed my bag of liquids from my suitcase. South Africa made us remove liquids in two different places in the security process. The UK made a big deal about having a machine that could check my bottle of water, but i waited 5 minutes for them to send my bag through that machine.

In some of those I was in the “going to the US” line, but in most i wasn’t, and i didn’t have to remove my shoes. (Because no place else has ever required that.)

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**Author:** ![doreen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/858c86/32.png) [@doreen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doreen)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2025, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/water-fountains/1022287/42 "2025-08-21T14:42:30Z")

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Whether the rules are saner depends on which country and the exact situation - my daughter and son-in-law had their luggage emptied and searched in (I think ) Croatia because apparently the security people thought they were lying because _of course_ two people with different last names can’t be married.

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