U.S. state Minnesota is set to open the world’s first Water Bar that will feature a full-fledged bar that will serve exclusively water products.

    The Water Bar began as a pop-up art project in 2014 as collaboration between artists Shanai Matteson and Colin Kloecker of Works Progress Studio. The bar serves local tap water to increase awareness about problems concerning water quality.

    “Water Bar is an itinerant open space for the generation of conversations and connections around the life-sustaining, precarious, communal activity of drinking tap water,” the bar’s website states. “We invite Water Bar visitors to engage with one another, as well as with project collaborators, who tend bar and share their knowledge of water and water issues.”

    The project is set to open its first brick and mortar location in its home state of Minnesota in order to combine with an art studio and hopefully extend its reach.

    “The most important thing is that we’re actually combining the Water Bar with a public studio, which we’re thinking of as an art sustainability studio and incubator, intended to build local projects with other artists and designers, all about water and environmental sustainability at the local level,” Matteson said.(SD-Agencies)