Project Details

The Challenge | Rise to Resilience!

You are a newly appointed Regional Green Engineer. Your challenge is to develop green infrastructure solutions for complex challenges in water management and risk reduction.Create a tool to assess the characteristics of an urban or rural area of your choice, and integrate green infrastructures, or nature-based solutions, into that region’s development plans to1) reduce flood and/or drought risk2) establish sustainable land use practices3) support water management, and/or 4) produce local economic opportunities.

AQUAMEN

We would tackle the growing problem of groundwater (exacerbated by climate change) scarcity by implementing gray water recycling systems in buildings and taking advantage of aquifers for water storage.

Aquamen