"A new generation of infrastructure projects that harness the power of nature can help achieve development goals, including water security and climate resilience."

In the Integrating Green and Gray : Creating Next Generation Infrastructure report, the World Bank and World Resources Institute are calling for green infrastructure, such as mangroves and wetlands, to play a bigger role in traditional infrastructure planning. Integrating nature into mainstream infrastructure systems can produce lower cost and more resilient services.

This cool Infographic GIF outlines how today's infrastructure is ill-equipped to deal with the 21-century challanges of population growth and its devestating impacts on climate change.