Birds, especially the urban variety, are feeling the effects of a warming planet. Higher temperatures and a lack of clean water correlate with lower bird diversity, but a new design solution is giving them relief from an unlikely source: air conditioners.
With summer and winter temperatures highs breaking records all over the world, people in cities are keeping things cool inside with ever more reliance on air conditioning systems. At the same time, just outside the windows of offices and apartments, birds are vulnerable to physiological stress and have even suffered mass die-offs. Now a simple new invention is turning air conditioning into a solution birds are thirsty for.
You’ve probably noticed the drips and drops that emerge from the outside pipes of air conditioners. These drops are, in fact, the condensation that results from the cooled air drawn from the interior. And the more intensively an air conditioner works, the more drops it produces – seven hours of operation can result in as much as ten litres of water from one unit.
The bird waterer design is opensource and downloadable from the Drop of Life website, and print at any 3D print studio with an easy-to-install design
Machine_ and Leo Burnett Ukraine, began a collaboration on how to turn these drops of water into a lifeline for urban birds.
Pete Little, Chief Creative Officer, Publicis Groupe Africa, says: “If a city is hot enough that you need air conditioning, it’s hot enough for the city’s birds to need a fresh water sources.”
The solution? A bird waterer that channels air conditioning drips into a bird-friendly water source.
Partnering with ecologists and ornithologists, a waterer was designed that would not only look and feel natural to birds, it can also fit any air conditioning system. Prototyped models, followed by full 3D-printable versions were created. Water from air conditioners can now be channelled into the device, and birds have a clean, safe and sustainable water source.
Kosta Schneider, Chief Creative Officer, Publicis Groupe Czech Republic and Ukraine says: “We want to see these on as many air conditioners as possible, in as many cities as possible, so we made the design open-source.”
Cities across the world, from Cape Town to Kyiv, Delhi to Los Angeles are all embarking on new strategies to mitigate higher temperatures and water scarcity for all its residence. Drops of Life now ensure the feathered residence aren’t forgotten in these strategies.
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Author: Petra Peacock from Chimeracomms on behalf of Publicis Groupe Africa.
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