WATER HARVESTING IN
STREET MEDIANS
This project was designed because a contest launched by one of the City Hall´s of Mexico City looking for a solution to the water problem. In this particular area of the city, the lack of water had become the most important issue to be solve for the authorities. This project materializes a research and investigation for a new and sustainable way to collect water for the community.
Water Ridge took the median strips of a street of a neighborhood in the city and made them a rainwater collector. First by collecting the rainwater with a recollection system under the sidewalks. Second by implementing a caption system for the rainwater in the roofs of the buildings that are on the median strips such as schools, soccer fields, parking and police station.The water will be routed through a drainage network for purification and storage in an underground container. This water then will be used first by the schools and the remains by the community.