Embed Code
A bubbler is essentially a cross between a pipe and a bong. It’s like a pipe because it has the size and shape of a pipe, and also includes a hole or ‘carb’ on the side of the bowl. But it also usually has a bulb under the bowl to hold water, allowing water filtration just like in a bong. This is useful if you want something portable like a pipe that still has the potency of a bong. It is named for the sound the water makes when you smoke it.
This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Drinking fountain" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (June 2013) (Learn how and when to remove this message) |
A drinking fountain, also called a water fountain or water bubbler, is a fountain designed to provide drinking water. It consists of a basin with either continuously running water or a tap. The drinker bends down to the stream of water and swallows water directly from the stream. Modern indoor drinking fountains may incorporate filters to remove impurities from the water and chillers to lower its temperature. Drinking fountains are usually found in public places, like schools, rest areas, libraries, and grocery stores.


Drinking fountains are an important source of clean water in urban infrastructure. Many jurisdictions require drinking fountains to be wheelchair accessible (by sticking out horizontally from the wall), and to include an additional unit of a lower height for children and short adults. The design that this replaced often had one spout atop a refrigeration unit.[citation needed]
English
Etymology
From bubble + -er.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [bʌb.lə]
Noun
bubbler (plural bubblers)
- Something that emits bubbles.
- An airstone for an aquarium.
- (Wisconsin, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Australia) A drinking fountain.
- 1939 June, Ella Gardner, Short-Time Camps: A Manual for 4-H Leaders, United States Department of Agriculture, Miscellaneous Publication No. 346, page 11,
- Plans for an inexpensive bubbler or drinking fountain that have been worked out by the 4-H Club department in Massachusetts are shown in figure 4.
- 1962 February, Repairs and Utilities: Refrigeration, Air
- 1939 June, Ella Gardner, Short-Time Camps: A Manual for 4-H Leaders, United States Department of Agriculture, Miscellaneous Publication No. 346, page 11,