How to create a sponge town?

This guide is meant to make small towns more pleasant and healthy to live in. To provide ideas and interventions for water management and regreening of such towns. There are tens of thousands of towns in the world but only very few are ‘sponge towns’. Towns with enough water for everyone throughout the year, even though the area around them is arid. Towns with beautiful functional green areas. Towns that buffer floods, not let water flow away, but redistribute the water in times of drought. Towns where the people work on making the town a good place to live. Sponge towns.

Source:

https://roadsforwater.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Sponge-Town-guideline-small-size.pdf