Dear Threshhold Climbing
We pay $35+ a Month for Membership
Install a Freak'n Water Fountain
This Riverside Climbing Gym has no water fountain...
Threshhold owners, we asked you for over a year. We, the climbers of threshhold want a drinking fountain. Every other gym in Riverside provides a drinking fountain. You on the other hand charge us for bottles of water. Sure we can bring our own water, but honestly, its pretty lame that you don't provide a refill option.
We asked for over a year
Threshhold Water Fountain Summary
Threshhold is an indoor climbing gym located in Riverside California. For 35+ dollars a month members are able to bolder and top rope 7 days a week. As many climbers have found, heavy climbing leaves one thirsty. Ah, here we find the problem. For a simple 2 dollars climbers are able to purchase water at the front desk.
Wait, a gym that charges for water? What about the water fountain? We pay to work out, the least you can do is install a freak'n water fountain. Is your business model so dependent on plastic water bottle sales that you don't provide water at the expense of your climbers and poluting the environment?
Reasons to install a water fountain.
Here are a few of the reasons that we believe you need to provide a drinking fountain for your members.
You are a gym
As a gym your promote health. Members come to you to sweat and burn calories. Staying hydrated during a workout is considered the most important part of staying fit.
Every other gym provides water, and this makes sense. If your goal is to help people be healthy and stay fit, then you shouldn't nickle and dime us for water which we NEED.
Water is Cheap
Water is one of the cheapest resources we use. A drinking fountain uses very little water and energy to filter basic water into refreshing drinking water. The cost of installing and running a drinking fountain is just the cost of doing business. Deal with it.
Plastic bottles polute the environment
Your a climbing gym right? Climbers are some of the most environmentally concious people in the world. We want to drink water out of the tap. We don't want to drink out of plastic that will be around for 500 years!
Environmental Impact of Threshholds Greed
Here are a few articles on various websites that back up our claim about environmental impact.
- Treehugger.com discusses the impact of bottled water
- MSNBC discusses the low rate of recycling of water bottles
- USA Today explains the problem is the resources used for plastic water bottles
- Another Treehugger article - up-to-date cost of water bottle production cost
Here are some scary quotes
Plastic water bottles produced for U.S. consumption take 1.5 million barrels of oil per year USA Today
Since the fossil fuels end up being accounted for in the GHG emissions I'll ignore those values for now. The total amount of water used to produce and deliver one bottle of imported water is 6.74kg (5kg + 20g + 1kg + 720g)! And the amount of GHGs released amount to 250g (93g + 4.3g + 153g), or 0.25kg, or 0.00025 tons. Treehugger
Cost of a Drinking Fountain
I did a little research and found a few drinking fountains
This beautiful drinking fountain runs $274.19.
Drinking Fountain, Wall mount, 8 GPH, Stainless Steel Color, Height 5 1/2 In., Width 10 In., Depth 11 In., Indoor/ Outdoor Mounting Location, Inlet 3/8 In IPS Connection, Connection Drain 1 1/4 In., ADA Compliant, Standards ANSI/NSF61, Section 9.
What about the Elkay EZS4L Water Cooler for $541?
This ones nice! It looks classy and will only set you back $541. Seriously thats only what.. 2 peoples year subscriptions?
Water Cooler, Wall Mount, 4 GPH, Light Gray Color, Height 19 13/16 In, Width 18 3/8 In, Depth 19 In, Indoor Mounting Location, Compressor 1/5 HP, 115 Voltage, Inlet 3/8 Inches Outer Diameter Tubing Connection, Connection Drain 1 1/4 In, 134A (CFC Free) Refrigerant, Maintains Constant Stream Height at Line Pressures of 20 to 105 PSI, Water Temp 50 Deg F, Standards ANSI/NSF61, Section 9,ADA Compliant.
Climbing Gyms with Water Fountains
We are over time going to build a list of gyms with drinking fountains. This includes nation wide climbing gyms (as an example of climbing gyms able to fit free water into there business model). Also we will list some local gyms even if they are not climbing gyms.
- Hanger 18 - Climbing gym in Riverside
If you own, are a member of or know a gym with a drinking fountain that would like to be on this list... please email me at parchedclimber@gmail.com
Threshhold Owners Response
Dale Partridge
Here is your chance to explain to us as a whole... why we should purchase water without a free option.
If you would like to chime in your two cents.. feel free! you can send your response or comments to parchedclimber@gmail.com
We will post what ever you send, good bad or ugly. If you make such a convincing point Ill post it in bold with a double underline!
Contact Threshhold of Riverside
Phone Number
(951) 742-8479
Address
2111 Iowa Ave Unit A
Riverside, Ca 92507
