#The Big Idea: Investing in “sponge cities” can mitigate the toll of climate change
(Photo illustration by Maclean’s. Photograph by Jason Gordon/iStock.) My fascination with water began as a child, when I saw rain for the first time. I spent the first 10 years of my life in the United Arab Emirates—one of the driest countries on Earth. My sister and I had eagerly anticipated the first rainfall of…