Today on the Internet I found the comment concerning "emergence of a column".
Near-Internet link. Pass. Two beautiful photos. There is even the logo "Russia today".
Apparently, this is not a column.
It is necessary to guess that it is necessary to open the following page.
In General, it is not difficult. But why do we need unnecessary "transitions"?..
I pass to the next page.
Text. Good photo. Heading. I feel some confusion (not really, of course, strong).
"It is the text. And where the column?" "Or this the text is - the announced column?".
Now all speak about counters.
The story with a columns was remembered up.
In the private sector there was no water supply system in each household earlier (it was expensive to carry out? They tried to save money?). Generally, on crossing of streets there were a (water) columns [a point of public water supply located on a street]. Residents came with buckets, filled them with water, carrying buckets full of water home, cooked, did the Laundry, and so on.
Then there was an individual water supply system. Everyone, having the known sum of money, could carry out a sistem of water supply to himself to a household.
(Water) Columns remained. They disturbed nobody. In Rostov, for example, I had not to use them, and here in distant years in one of settlements near the Black Sea it was possible to get drunk on the outskirts of the settlement from a column in hot day of excellent water.
Generally columns, continued to live because they disturbed nobody. Then there were counters. Columns stood as stood.
Then there was an idea of economy. (As far as she is real, this idea, - about it it is possible to understand from several gas cases and themes which recently sparkled in a political sky is similar to comets).
Actually it - not "economy", and a certain algorithm. It, this algorithm, aims - to put the consumer in a situation of a set of actually unrealizable requirements, to make it absolutely vulnerable, "to execute" him or "to pardon" at discretion, "to clean" his pockets. So it is not "economy", and the 1555th way of of withdrawal of money at ordinary citizens.
But we will return to columns. On a street columns, at some moment, - vague rumors reached, - it seems, started to install counters and still some devices, like, locks. What would anyone could not drink water (or to receive it). Naturally, these devices, installed on columns, an unknown people began to break ...
In General, in the situation of columns there has been a breakthrough... but, as a fact of reality, the columns are interesting.
It is remembered that on squares of the antique cities there were fountains, pools. There are fountains and fountainlets (including, for drink) and in some modern (Western European?) cities.
Anyway "such practice is accepted around the world" ... "it is absolutely normal, accepted around the world practice" ...
February 13, 2019 16:23
Translation from Russian into English: February 13, 2019 17:03.
Владимир Владимирович Залесский 'Рассказ о колонке'.