Water 2050

Water 2050 is a 2D isometric city manager about addressing water pollution. You play as the Mayor of the last inhabitable city in a not-so-distant future where Earth has become a polluted landfill. Most of the water is heavily polluted and barely fit for humans, and environmental damage has brought life on Earth close to its end.

Manage the city across time

You manage the city in both the future and the past, using time travel to introduce real-world technologies and practices that reduce water pollution. Improvements made in the past lead to a better future. You also manage resources and deal with contaminated areas, natural calamities and decisions that affect the city’s survival, with help from a long-lived engineer.

Research and respond

You can research 14 real-world technologies aimed at water sustainability and unlock special buildings, including a stadium, cemetery, observatory and space rocket launch site. Each of these buildings has special events to resolve. Heat waves, smog, electric storms, acid rain, droughts, blizzards, sandstorms and other calamities test your ability to keep the city alive. Dozens of events ask you to make decisions with consequences for the city’s survival.

Water pollution

The game presents current practices and technologies for reducing water pollution as a lighthearted way to address the water crisis. It was developed in association with the Water Environment Association.