R – Refill Location F – Water Fountain
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Why is QUENCH important?
QUENCH promotes municipal tap water as a safe, reliable, and convenient source of drinking water. By encouraging users to carry reusable water bottles and use the app to find convenient sources of free water on a daily basis, plastic waste will be reduced by eliminating the wasteful consumption of single-use plastic water bottles.
Who can use QUENCH?
QUENCH is available for iPhones and iPads running iOS5+, Android phones running OS 2.3+ and Blackberry phones. QUENCH data is also available as a web-app on this webpage.
Where can QUENCH be used?
QUENCH is primarily available for use in the Greater Toronto Area with over 1250 Refill Locations and water fountains listed as of May 2013. However, users in other cities can add locations to the database either through the app itself or by registering as an Official QUENCH station, making the service available to other areas across Canada on a limited basis.
What is a Refill Location?
Refill locations are local businesses such as restaurants and retailers who are willing to provide free tap water to visitors carrying reusable bottles.
What is an Official QUENCH Station?
Official QUENCH Stations have an ‘Official’ badge on the location page within the app and will often have a QUENCH decal displayed on their storefront windows.
How do I become an Official QUENCH Station?
Community businesses such as restaurants, stores or cafes are an important part of how QUENCH works. To sign up your business as an Official QUENCH Station, please email your business name, address, phone number, and photo to Quench@thewaterbrothers.ca
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Major funding was graciously supplied by the Bell New Media Fund, The Water Brothers TV Series, TVO and the Canada Media Fund.
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Is there any chance of a browser-accessible version of this application? I use a Nokia phone with built-in GPS accessible by the browser scripting, e.g. nextbus.com/webkit works perfectly to give me the TTC transit options wherever I wait.
Even if iPhone/Android/Blackberry are the kings of the N.American phone market, not everyone uses them.
Also, your application and whatever back-end is used to maintain the water locations is of international interest–many cities around the world need info on where potable water can be found. You should be partnering with organizations like Oxfam, who could advise you very well about the opportunities…
Finally, in the less developed parts of the world, people use the mobile Internet mostly through their mobile browser: companies like Nokia sell huge numbers of basic phones with just those capabilities.
Thank you so much for all of your feedback! We do recognize that not everyone uses iPhone/Android/Blackberry’s, and some don’t even use mobile phones at all. There is a browser accessible version, right here: http://thewaterbrothers.ca/quench For those who choose to use mobile internet, or their home computer. We’re hoping to expand Quench across Canada, as we do feel it is important for people EVERYWHERE to know where they can access clean water.
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This sounds amazing! Unfortunately, it’s incompatible with my Galaxy S (GT-I9000M). Howcome?
Whoops! Found the answer in the comments. Unfortunately my phone is a year and a half old–still working fine, but I cannot upgrade it to Android 4.0 (it’s at 2.3.3 and I believe this is the highest I can upgrade).
This seems like a technically simple application–why won’t it run on older versions of Android?
Hi Naadia, thanks for your post! Even though the Quench App only has one main function (finding water near you!) older Android phones were running very slowly, overheating and using too much power to load everything in the database. (We originally wanted to launch it for ALL Androids) You can always use the web-based version on your mobile browser, however!
http://thewaterbrothers.ca/quench
Love the concept. But the app doesn’t seem to be compatible with my Android phone.
Hi Geobunny, it works on Android 4+, so if you have ICS (Ice cream sandwich) running on your phone, you will be able to download it. Please let us know if you have any more questions!
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Hi, Thank you for the great show!
I’ve been itching to use the Quench app, however I’m not on ios5 since I’m using iPhone4 and reported to have a problem with the new ios update. Is there any way you guys can make this app ios4 friendly? Thanks!!
Hi, a question more than a comment.
What are your thoughts on drinking Toronto’s tap water in areas where there are still old lead pipes?
If you are concerned about led pipes contact the City of Toronto or your local municipality and ask them for information on lead pipes in your area. Toronto has a a program in place to remove all the lead connectors and pipes and is doing so free of charge throughout the city. It is a huge task but the vast majority of the city’s drinking water never touches lead pipes, but I would still encourage you to contact the city and ensure that there are no lead connectors or pipes leading into your home.
Can’t download for android on Samsung Infuse – googles claims it won’t work. Sigh…
So sorry to hear that, Wubs. It works on Android 4+, so if you have ICS (Ice cream sandwich) running on your phone, you will be able to download it. ICS should be available for all phones soon. Please let us know if you have any more questions after the update! In the mean time, please feel free to use http://thewaterbrothers.ca/quench on your mobile browser, or on your home computer.
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I would like to install the app on my Android device, however Google Play indicates that my HTC Desire HD isn’t compatible. I would greatly appreciate a fix. Thanks.
Hi Ifran! Currently, Quench is only available for Android 4.0 and above. When you update your HTC to ice cream sandwich (the new OS, it should be available for your model soon) you will be able to install and run Quench. Thanks for your feedback!
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Hi there,
what a great idea!Congratulations!
I live in Ottawa and would LOOOOOOVE to have the same application for Ottawa, are there any plans to expand and cover other locations?
Thanks,
Covy
Hey Covy! Thanks for your comment. Yes, we DO want to expand to other Canadian cities. You can keep up with the updates on the facebook page, at https://www.facebook.com/QuenchApp We’ll keep you updated!
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