curiousChallenge Explorer
Water Innovationadvanced~50 mins

Design a city-wide water resilience system for the future.

Future cities must secure water against droughts, floods and growth at once.

Real-world context

Future cities must secure water against droughts, floods and growth at once. Resilience means rethinking capture, reuse, distribution and waste as one connected system.

The challenge

Design a city-wide water resilience system for the future. Study who is affected, dig past the obvious symptoms to the real root causes, and design a solution that could actually work in the real world. There is no single correct answer — what matters is the quality of your thinking, the stakeholders you consider, and how clearly you justify your chosen direction.

Reflection prompts

  • Who is most affected by this problem, and how did you account for them?
  • What is the single biggest risk to your solution working?
  • Which assumption, if wrong, would break your whole idea?