Evolve with Evive

Evive station in the Smith Student Center

On Monday April 8th from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Smith Student Center, members from Evive were selling Evive water bottles to students. The bottles are to be used with the new Evive water filling stations that are
located upstairs in the student center by the SGA office and in the ARC. The two stations were installed shortly after spring break and provide students with quick, fresh, filtered, and chilled water.

Ashlynn Seeman, a senior Early Childhood Education major checks out her new Evive water bottle

The water bottles were being sold for $7 plus tax, which came to a total of $7.42 per bottle. The bottles themselves are double layered for better insulation and are capable of keeping your water chilled for up to as long as 4 to 5 hours. After you purchased your Evive bottle, you have to go online to the Evive webpage to register your bottle and to set up your pin and preferences before use.

Evive station in the ARC

The Evive water filling stations were first installed at West Virginia University last April and have since been increasing in their popularity. With the two just recently installed on the SRU campus, students can now get to use these innovative machines. Now what makes these Evive stations so much different than any other water filling station is that the machine will clean your bottle before filling it with filtered water. While your bottle gets cleaned and re-filled, the screen on the machine will play you a short commercial based on the preferences that you had entered when you registered your bottle. The short ads are from Ad agencies that sponsor Evive and this is what allows you to use the Evive stations for free.

Evive Station intern and senior Secondary Education and History major Lenny Caric sells the Evive water bottles and explains their use in this video.


Emily Herring, 20, a sophomore Early Childhood and Special Education major tries out her new Evive water bottle for the first time at the Evive station in the Smith Student Center.