Hydrousa Serious Game

This gaming experience lets you become the savior of a virtual town, by helping it recover from a water crisis. Goal of the game is managing to find a system design that exploits the town's available resources wisely and meets the respective irrigation and household non potable demands.

Rainwater falling on the houses' roofs and the town's impermeable surfaces (pavements, streets, yards, etc.) is collected. The roofs' rainwater is stored in Tanks Νο1 and is primarily used for household non potable uses. The surface runoff from the impermeable surfaces is stored in Tanks Νο2, where it also meets the rainwater of any probable overflow οf Tanks Νο1. Rainwater of Tanks Νο2 is used for irrigation as well as for storage in the subsurface (Aquifer) through artificial recharge. Additional rainwater is collected via Bioswale systems (open-channel linear drainage systems) from the town's fields and reserved in Τanks Νο3. This water is also used for irrigation, while any probable overflow of Tanks No3 heads to the subsurface through artificial recharge. Water can be recovered from the subsurface for irrigation.

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There are 3 Difficulty Levels. Hover your mouse over the information icons for more details.

• Movement: Use your right mouse click
• 1: Click to see the final results once you're confident the demands are met
• 2: Remaining time to design the system
• 3: The decisions you make to design the system have a respective construction and operating cost
• 4: Volume Controller
• 5: Information about the remaining deficits, updating dynamically whenever a decision is made
• 6: Useful graphs, updating dynamically whenever a decision is made

To make your decisions and design the system, you have to find and open three hidden menus. Each menu opens whenever you approach and left click a respective city component.
Clue: The aforementioned city components look like this:

This is a hidden menu. Use the sliders to design the system the way you want. You can request more information on each slider by hovering over the respective icons.