Is it safe to drink from water fountains?

Question

When I was little, I always had the image that people would stick their mouths over the hole and leave all their germs on it and when you drank from it, it'll be like drinking their spit. How clean is the water from water fountains?

Answer 1

There are people in other countries today drinking from puddles.

You're alright, a fountain won't kill you.

Answer 2

I imagine you were correct.  I remember as a kid we had those fountains in the middle of the hallway at school where the water bubbled up in the center.  I saw little kids put their mouth over the whole thing.  I only drink from fountains in desperation.

Answer 3

no bcaues u would have s*x

Answer 4

naw its unhygenic

Answer 5

You may have something there. I have seen people, not just kids do this too. I would not drink from a fountain unless I was desperate myself. But then I don't normally drink any tap water that is not filtered so that really has more to do with it than the idiots that don't know how to drink from it or the ones that can't teach their kids to drink from it properly.