With or Without Water: Building resilient livelihoods through infrastructure in the Lake Chad Basin
Christina Milos

The rapid decline of Lake Chad—by over 90% in the past 40 years—is emblematic of the current dramatic rate of global ecological change. The Food and Agriculture Organization calls the shrinking of Lake Chad an “ecological catastrophe” and warns of an impending humanitarian disaster without a radical change in water management practices. This work proposes an adaptive infrastructural scaffold to build the resilience of ecosystems and populations to water scarcity and desertification.