A team of students from the National Taiwan University of the Arts used polluted water from around the city to make popsicles. The motive behind the project is to highlight the importance of clean water. (Courtesy of Facebook/@PollutedWaterPopsicles)

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A group of students in Taiwan created popsicles out of sewage water to emphasize the need for clean water.They collected polluted water from 100 sources throughout the city.

Popsicles are typically a tasty treat, but a team of students in Taiwan has used them to highlight the importance of clean water.

By making them out of sewage.

Operating under a name that translates to 100% Pure Sewage Ice, the group consisting of Hung I-chen, Guo Yi-hui and Cheng Yu-ti from the National Taiwan University of the Arts , according to their Facebook page. After freezing the water, they preserved it in polyester resin.

Hung told Quartz that she . They chose popsicles because of the approach of summerand the fact that popsicles are made almost totally out of water.

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, including wrappers, plastic bags and bottles and bottle caps, Hung told Mashable.

Not only was the water debris filled, it also had a not-so-pleasant smell. The team was forced to buy a throwaway freezer to hold their frozen art, Mashable reports.

In total the team created roughly 100 popsicles, as well as coordinating wrappers that show where the water they were made from was collected.

The names of “New Huwei Creek,” and “Yang-tzu-chou Drainage,” according to Inhabitat.

According to their Facebook page, the popsicles have won them the 2017 Golden Point Rookie of the Year Design Award for visual communication design.

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