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Develop durable, low-cost road, bridge, drainage, and maintenance approaches for areas facing increasingly erratic rainfall and flooding.
climate-environment
africa
mozambique
climate-proofing
rural
roads
connect
farmers
markets
develop
durable
low-cost
road
urban
african
economics-resources
infrastructure
access
open
South Africa, Africa
Develop species selection, watering, soil protection, maintenance financing, and monitoring systems that allow urban tree canopies to survive rapid development.
climate-environment
africa
south-africa
urban
protecting
trees
during
heat
drought
construction
develop
species
selection
systems
society-governance
global-unspecified
cities
economics-resources
Create predictive maintenance and equipment-upgrade strategies for overloaded local grids serving growing cities and newly electrified rural areas.
economics-resources
asia
indonesia
grids
reducing
transformer
failures
rapidly
expanding
distribution
create
predictive
maintenance
rural
local
cities
before
might
Create transparent testing, household behavior, public infrastructure, and maintenance strategies so families consistently access safe water rather than reverting to contaminated sources.
economics-resources
asia
bangladesh
safe
reducing
arsenic
exposure
wells
unevenly
distributed
create
transparent
testing
public
climate-environment
society-governance
access
systems
Create desalination systems that minimize energy, brine damage, maintenance burden, and water cost for communities beyond conventional utility networks.
society-governance
africa
cape-verde
desalination
communities
low-energy
isolated
coastal
create
systems
minimize
energy
brine
economics-resources
climate-environment
fishing
social-civic-problems
remote
Millions of households in Fiji rely on borewells with naturally occurring fluoride or arsenic above safe thresholds, and current filtration technology is too costly or maintenance-intensive for rural deployment.
health-biology
oceania
fiji
fluoride
arsenic
removing
contamination
groundwater
millions
households
rely
borewells
rural
climate-environment
