They've been telling us for years to conserve water while we wash our face and brush our teeth – but how many of us actually do it? If you find yourself slightly embarrassed at your answer, maybe you'd be a little more water conscious if your sink usage could mean the life or death of your favorite goldfish.
Designer Yan Lu, a "sustainability-minded designer" from London, has come up with the Poor Little Fishbowl Sink, a sink with a fishbowl attached to the top that seems to empty as you use water from the tap. Use too much, and poor mister goldfish will literally suffocate in front of your eyes.
Well, not really. According to Lu, "while using [the sink], the level of water in the bowl gradually falls (but does not actually drain out); it will go back to the same level once the water stops running. As well, the water from the tap is pure, as its pipeline does not connect to the bowl.”
So it only looks like you're slowly killing your favorite fishy, which for some people, is more than enough to get them to shut off the tap.
Lu calls his newest green invention, "an emotional way to persuade consumers to think about saving water, by making consumption tangible." While it's not the most practical sink a person could buy (and probably isn't really for sale anyway), Lu certainly has a point when it comes to "making consumption tangible." So many of us simply have no concept of how much water we waste on a daily basis; but you can bet constant guilt caused by a drowning fish would help.
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