When it comes to championing sustainability and highlighting climate change, the Desert Vipers cricket team are not just walking the talk – they are also drinking the drink.
Thanks to a partnership with Bluewater, the Vipers – a franchise that plays in the UAE’s own Twenty20 league, the DP World ILT20 – has jettisoned plastic water bottles in favour of a far more environmentally friendly option.
Gone from the dugout area at all Desert Vipers matches are the tall refrigerators containing single-use plastic bottles so common across the cricketing landscape.
In their place are state-of-the-art water filtration units provided by Bluewater, who have become the Vipers’ Official Hydration Partner and also a Sustainability Impact Partner.
The units, which were present next to the Vipers dugouts at all three venues – Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Sharjah – during the tournament, feature warming stripes that visualise the rise in global temperatures since 1850, based on data from a range of expert sources, and work by Professor Ed Hawkins, a Professor of Climate Science at Reading University in the United Kingdom who added: “The world is warming, mainly due to burning fossil fuels. The warming stripes highlight the rapid change in global temperatures and will help start important conversations about the risks from climate change amongst cricket fans across the world.”
