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August 17, 2018

Peruvian students claim World Architecture Festival’s inaugural water prize

 

As part of its annual jamboree celebrating the best in design from around the globe, the World Architecture Festival will this year introduce a new award that tackles the critical challenges around water scarcity. Taking out the very first Water Research Prize is a team of students who have come up with a clever contraption to gather and distribute water in the Peruvian Amazon.

Much like XPrize’s Water Abundance competition, the Water Research Prize is designed to spur innovation around the preservation of the precious resource by inviting submissions from across the globe, with entrants asked to identify a new challenge and opportunity relating to design and water.

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With £10,000 (US$12,700) prize money on offer to further develop their ideas, the inaugural edition drew more than 60 entries, which were then whittled down to a shortlist of 12 and the eventual winner. The winning team, from Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, turned its attention to the challenges around water and sewerage systems for human settlements in the Peruvian Amazon.

This region is unique in that while being home to the world’s highest levels of annual rainfall, only 31 percent of the population have access to water. Its solution was to step away from traditional water tanks in favor of a modular water collection system that takes up less space and can be more easily integrated with existing structures.

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