An eco friendly cleansing font at a shrine

An eco friendly cleansing font at a shrine

Japan's cleansing fonts at shrines are indeed beautiful, but perhaps not particularly ecological. Most of them, when turned on, have a continuous flow of water, even if most often it is more a trickle than a flow. It still wastes water. I doubt they recycle the water considering people wash their hands and rinse their mouths with the water for the ritual cleansing practice known as 'temizu'.I really don't know much about the water source and vol…