The Resilient City
The Resilience Shift conducted a system-wide analysis for the most yield-effective solutions to Mexico City's water infrastructure.

Overview
The Resilience Shift - a Lloyd’s Register Foundation programme in partnership with Arup - has catalysed a global movement toward safe and sustainable infrastructure through design.
Vulnerable to shocks and stresses including natural disasters, shortfall of critical infrastructure, inadequate governance, extreme weather and groundwater over exploitation, Mexico City has, for some 500 years, long endured an unstable water infrastructure. Consequently, it was identified as the largest global consumer of bottled water.
Communicating with stakeholders and local NGOs, The Resilience Shift conducted a system-wide analysis for the most yield-effective solutions to the city's water infrastructure, these include leakage repair in the city’s aged plumbing systems, recharging the city’s natural aquifer, and the harvesting of rainwater.
Here, the interconnectedness of solutions and systems are woven together in a dynamic animation, demonstrating how all solutions should be pursued and monitored simultaneously to stabilise the troubled water infrastructure. This animation visualises how, with the help of innovative design, Mexico City can maintain watertight resilience.
In conversation with The Resilience Shift, Arup

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