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Trust for Public Land donors Kenny Leftin and Jossie Ivanov spent one of their first dates exploring Golden Gate Park. A few years later—after many weekend trips to Muir Woods and other favorite spots—Kenny would propose outside the Dahlia Garden at San Fran- cisco’s Conservatory of Flowers. “Parks were the places where we realized we liked the same things— to be outside and wander and just see what we’d come across,” says Ivanov. “That’s one of the greatest things about the city of San Fran- cisco: in any direction you walk, you’re going to discover something beautiful and unexpected.” For their wedding last fall, the pair picked Lithia Park in Ashland,
H2O 101 Jossie Ivanov is a graduate student
in urban planning. Her thesis topic? Drinking fountains.
“Free drinking fountains, yielding pure, cold water, would confer a boon on all classes.” So read a resolution of the London Metropolitan Drinking Fountain and Trough Society, which unveiled its first fountain to an enthusiastic crowd in 1859.
The humble drinking fountain has come a long way since then, evolving for improved hygiene and accessibility. The newest design innovations reflect growing concern for resource conservation.
mouth guard A response to public-health concerns in the 1920s, the addition of a mouth guard to the
“arc bubbler” design helped prevent the spread of germs.
bottle fillers
Spigots designed to top off refillable canteens help encourage sustainable alternatives to bottled water.
graywater drainage Fountains can direct excess water to irrigation systems or toilets instead of directly into sewers—but municipal codes rarely allow this.
Oregon. Since the 1900s, locals have touted the health properties of the park’s spring water—a subject often on Ivanov’s mind these days. As a graduate student in urban planning at MIT, she’s studying the changing role of public drinking fountains. Of course, the park’s appeal was more than academic. It’s across the street from her grandparents’ home and featured in her very earliest wedding plans. “When I was a kid I’d say that I was going to get married there,”
Ivanov remembers. “I jokingly told Kenny about it the first time I took him to visit my grandparents, and after we got engaged that was the first thing he said: obviously we have to get married in that park!”
22 · LAND&PEOPLE · SPRING/SUMMER 2015
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