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Africa / Nigeria
WS02299
Frequent regional power shortages cut off electricity to rural operating rooms and ICU units without automatic solar-battery fail-safes.
Team Humans Club. (2026). We haven't integrated local microgrids with smart load shedding to protect rural hospitals from rolling grid blackouts.. World Solve Repository, WS02299. Retrieved from https://www.worldsolve.org/index.php?view=problem&id=2299
Upstream dam operations retain river water during droughts, starving downstream nations of water needed for agriculture and electricity generation.
Team Humans Club. (2026). We haven't established legally binding regional agreements on transboundary dam operations during extreme dry seasons.. World Solve Repository, WS02300. Retrieved from https://www.worldsolve.org/index.php?view=problem&id=2300
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Asia / South Korea
WS02301
Commercial seaweed farming faces high initial equipment costs and fragile processing supply chains, delaying its potential for carbon sequestration.
Team Humans Club. (2026). We haven't scaled up seaweed aquaculture as a alternative protein source and ocean de-acidification tool.. World Solve Repository, WS02301. Retrieved from https://www.worldsolve.org/index.php?view=problem&id=2301
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Asia / Philippines
WS02302
As young generations move to cities, historic mountain farming terraces are abandoned, leading to unchecked soil erosion and landslides.
Team Humans Club. (2026). We haven't curbed the destruction of ancient terrace farming systems due to rural-to-urban youth migration.. World Solve Repository, WS02302. Retrieved from https://www.worldsolve.org/index.php?view=problem&id=2302
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Asia / China
WS02303
Rapid installation of robotics in manufacturing plants leaves low-skilled factory workers unemployed without access to technology retraining.
Team Humans Club. (2026). We haven't created effective vocational retraining programs for factory workers displaced by industrial automation.. World Solve Repository, WS02303. Retrieved from https://www.worldsolve.org/index.php?view=problem&id=2303
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Asia / Indonesia
WS02304
Small towns burn household plastic and trash daily, generating toxic dioxin emissions that contaminate nearby air and local farmland.
Team Humans Club. (2026). We haven't eliminated open-air garbage burning in rural municipalities lacking municipal waste collection.. World Solve Repository, WS02304. Retrieved from https://www.worldsolve.org/index.php?view=problem&id=2304
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Asia / India
WS02305
Surging demand for traditional air conditioning units in warm Asian nations releases potent HFC greenhouse gases, compounding global warming.
Team Humans Club. (2026). We haven't developed low-energy air cooling technologies capable of replacing fluorinated refrigerant hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs).. World Solve Repository, WS02305. Retrieved from https://www.worldsolve.org/index.php?view=problem&id=2305
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Asia / Myanmar
WS02306
Newly planted young mangrove saplings are routinely washed away by increasingly intense storms before establishing deep root structures.
Team Humans Club. (2026). We haven't protected coastal mangrove restoration projects from being destroyed by severe, unseasonal storm events.. World Solve Repository, WS02306. Retrieved from https://www.worldsolve.org/index.php?view=problem&id=2306
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Asia / Sri Lanka
WS02307
Coastal fishers are forced to sell daily catches to predatory middlemen at fraction of market prices due to lack of real-time price transparency.
Team Humans Club. (2026). We haven't built affordable digital market access tools for small-craft artisanal fishers.. World Solve Repository, WS02307. Retrieved from https://www.worldsolve.org/index.php?view=problem&id=2307
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Asia / Mongolia
WS02308
Seasonal migrations prevent pastoral populations from maintaining continuous health records, impacting chronic disease management and vaccination tracking.
Team Humans Club. (2026). We haven't established universal digital health records for nomadic pastoralists across Central Asia.. World Solve Repository, WS02308. Retrieved from https://www.worldsolve.org/index.php?view=problem&id=2308
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Asia / Malaysia
WS02309
Park rangers cannot patrol vast rainforest expanses on foot; acoustic detection networks for gunshots and chainsaws remain too expensive for wide deployment.
Team Humans Club. (2026). We haven't curbed illegal wildlife poaching using autonomous real-time acoustic sensors in remote jungles.. World Solve Repository, WS02309. Retrieved from https://www.worldsolve.org/index.php?view=problem&id=2309
Open
Asia / Thailand
WS02310
Complex, legacy land ownership patterns in urban centers make land assembly prohibitively expensive for municipal social housing development.
Team Humans Club. (2026). We haven't solved urban land fragmentation impeding large-scale affordable social housing projects.. World Solve Repository, WS02310. Retrieved from https://www.worldsolve.org/index.php?view=problem&id=2310
Open
Asia / China
WS02311
Groundwater extraction in surrounding agricultural zones causes subtle soil sinkage beneath critical transit corridors, requiring constant costly re-leveling.
Team Humans Club. (2026). We haven't stopped industrial land subsidence from compromising high-speed rail corridor foundations.. World Solve Repository, WS02311. Retrieved from https://www.worldsolve.org/index.php?view=problem&id=2311
Open
Asia / Bhutan
WS02312
Seasonal mountain landslides routinely break main water pipelines, cutting off municipal drinking water to mountain towns for weeks.
Team Humans Club. (2026). We haven't built climate-resilient drinking water pipelines through landslide-prone mountain passes.. World Solve Repository, WS02312. Retrieved from https://www.worldsolve.org/index.php?view=problem&id=2312
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Asia / Myanmar
WS02313
Frequent regional network shutdowns in conflict zones prevent students from accessing digital schools, causing years of lost education.
Team Humans Club. (2026). We haven't provided continuous digital education access during protracted political conflicts and Internet shutdowns.. World Solve Repository, WS02313. Retrieved from https://www.worldsolve.org/index.php?view=problem&id=2313
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Asia / Cambodia
WS02314
Plastics dumped in upstream countries flow down international rivers, polluting downstream nations that lack diplomatic enforcement mechanisms.
Team Humans Club. (2026). We haven't stopped transboundary plastic pollution floating down shared international river systems.. World Solve Repository, WS02314. Retrieved from https://www.worldsolve.org/index.php?view=problem&id=2314
Open
Asia / Indonesia
WS02315
International carbon credit projects often benefit corporate developers and national governments while indigenous communities protecting the forests receive minimal revenue.
Team Humans Club. (2026). We haven't created equitable carbon credit distribution frameworks for indigenous forest stewards.. World Solve Repository, WS02315. Retrieved from https://www.worldsolve.org/index.php?view=problem&id=2315
Open
Global / Global / Unspecified
WS00652
Many common medications cause dry mouth as a side effect, and current treatments manage symptoms rather than addressing the underlying cause, leaving patients with ongoing discomfort and dental risk. A more effective solution remains undeve...
Team Humans Club. (2026). We don't have an effective way to treat chronic dry mouth caused by certain long-term medications.. World Solve Repository, WS00652. Retrieved from https://www.worldsolve.org/index.php?view=problem&id=652
Open
Global / Global / Unspecified
WS00649
Some patients experience frequent, disruptive muscle cramps with no identifiable underlying cause, and treatment remains largely limited to general advice on hydration and stretching. A more targeted treatment approach remains needed.
Team Humans Club. (2026). We don't have an effective, widely available way to treat chronic muscle cramps that occur without a clear cause.. World Solve Repository, WS00649. Retrieved from https://www.worldsolve.org/index.php?view=problem&id=649
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Global / Global / Unspecified
WS00647
Some infants experience repeated, severe respiratory infections in their first years of life despite preventive measures, and current understanding of why this happens in certain babies remains incomplete. Better prevention for this vulnera...
Team Humans Club. (2026). We can't yet fully prevent the recurrence of bronchiolitis in infants prone to severe respiratory infections.. World Solve Repository, WS00647. Retrieved from https://www.worldsolve.org/index.php?view=problem&id=647
