I’d never heard of a bubbler before I came to the University of Massachusetts. In New Jersey, we say water fountain. There’s no debate whatsoever. So when someone down the hall from me said “I like it ...

For years, there also was a story that Kohler actually coined the term "bubbler," reportedly trademarking the name in 1888. Only problem with that: As the Sheboygan Press reported in 2014, Kohler ...

Where did the term 'bubbler' that only we use for a water fountain come from? Drinking fountains go back to ancient times, but the gush of interest in cleaner drinking water in cities in the late ...

Inexplicably, public water fountains here are called bubblers and pretty much only here. There are some in Rhode Island, for some reason, but the vast, vast majority of the nation adopted ...

Call it the first known case of the Thirsty Thief. One of Portland’s 126 iconic Benson Bubbler water fountains has been nabbed, according to the Water Bureau. The bronze bubbler at Southeast ...

Though technically not a Benson Bubbler—the iconic 100-year-old, four-bowl fountains that dot the city—the two missing single-bowl bubblers were made from specialty molds designed for the city ...