The campus innovation Minnesota students couldn't live without

Ah, so this is what an official "water-bottle-filling station" or "hydration station" looks like.

Advocate photo editor Jessica Fleming recently caught it in action at MSU-Moorhead.

Note the functionality breakthroughs:

The user's mouth never has to approach the fluid-dispensory component, which makes the station much more accessible than its Water 1.0 counterparts.

The interface is clearly much simpler and more intuitive, and the internal delivery unit dispenses the product faster.

And that, ultimately, leaves students more time to play beer pong.

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