Day 1: The Water Under

Cape Town looks ahead to Day Zero, the day the city of 4 million inhabitants will run out of potable drinking water.

My thesis starts off as research and analysis into the causes and effects of the drought the city of Cape Town experienced. It looks at the current water supply system, environmental changes and urban expansion as key drivers.

My project follows one possible solution to the water crisis. It uses parametric tools to develop an infrastructural web of water purification and distribution nodes throughout the city, which suck water up from the polluted aquifer below, purify this water, distribute it to its surrounding, recycles black and grey water after use and finally allows it to permeate back into the soil where it came from. The cycle is complete.