Water Systems & Climate Resilience
A founding Living Lab co-designed with local communities and humanitarian organisations to develop decentralised water management adapted to conflict and climate stress.
Water sovereignty under stress.
Yemen sits at the intersection of two compounding crises: a long-running conflict that has shattered centralised infrastructure, and one of the most severe water-stress profiles in the world. Conventional aid models rebuild what was; they rarely design what should come next.
The Yemen Lab is an attempt at the latter — a decentralised, community-owned model for water that can survive shocks because it was never centralised in the first place.
Co-designed, locally owned, transparently measured.
Participatory mapping
Community-led mapping of existing water sources, knowledge holders, and points of failure. The system map is owned by the people who live in it.
Decentralised infrastructure
Modular catchment, storage, and purification units designed for local maintenance and incremental scale — not single-point-of-failure.
Transdisciplinary build
Hydrology, materials science, governance design, and traditional knowledge converge in a 12–24 month build-a-thon.
Verified outcomes
Open data on flow, quality, uptime, and household impact — published as commercial reference for partners and funders.
Help scale water sovereignty.
The Yemen Lab is funded through Allternet's Blended Capital engine. Foundations, multilaterals, and corporate sponsors can co-fund expansion, sponsor specific modules, or test relevant technologies in real conditions.