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Edition 78

Water-Sensitive Cities

Designing with Water, Not Against It

A practical shift from flood control to water stewardship—showing how rainfall, buildings, landscapes, drainage, wetlands and public spaces can work together as one urban water system.

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Inside GTR 78

A complete conversation, in one focused edition.

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Seven water-sensitive urban responses

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Five water actions for the next 90 days

03

Water, cities and stewardship

04

2040: When every drop had a job

Cover story

Every Drop Has a Job

Every drop has a job.

Case studyCape Town: Towards a Water-Sensitive City

Ideas become useful when they meet a real place, a real challenge and the people shaping what comes next.

GTR reflection

The future of water-sensitive cities may depend less on how quickly they remove water and more on how wisely they retain, reuse and respect it.

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