Researching The Water Crisis

A large part of our semester has been devoted to research — researching local and global water issues, water uses, users and the infinite number of other factors contributing to the global water crisis.

After more traditional research — databases, books, magazines, the internets, etc., we shut the laptops and headed out into the real-world to see what people knew or thought about the issue.

Out of nearly one hundred people interviewed on IUPUI's campus, we found two common themes arising: people are either completely unaware of the water crisis or they're somewhat aware but too busy to care.

Since the Aspen Design Challenge brief already states that people are unaware of the global water crisis, we decided to focus on people being too busy to care.

We're now developing innovative ways of informing them of the water crisis and inspiring them to take action.