This multipurpose drinking fountain, designed by ÉCAL industrial design graduate Dimitri Nassisi, can be used for fighting fires, quenching thirst, filling bottles and refreshing pet dogs.
Styled to look like an updated fire hydrant, the Drinking Hydrant is bright blue to attract the attention of anyone looking for water.

"In Switzerland you find some drinking fountains, but I don't feel there is enough of them. The problem I saw was that they would often be very discreet and people don't know where to find them," explained Nassisi.
"Also, it is very complicated to add new drinking fountains. It takes a lot of time to develop such a project and the costs are high."

Nassisi, who studied industrial design at Ecole cantonale d'art de Lausanne (ÉCAL) in Renens, Switzerland, set out to create a new drinking fountain that was both intuitive, attractive and used existing infrastructure in the city. "Swiss streets are filled with lots of well-thought-out objects," said Nassisi. "What was profoundly interesting to notice was that the overflow of information on the roads pushes people to look at all these elements like an abstract painting."

When looking for easily accessible water in the city, Nassisi noticed that the traditional red fire hydrants were becoming increasingly invisible in the streets among all the other noise.
"My biggest question for the drinking fountain was what it should look like," he said.

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