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Using simple, low-cost sensors, cloud data storage, artificial intelligence, and GIS, they devised Saaf water, a system that can be widely deployed to improve the health and even save the lives of millions. Their solution was the grand prize winner of IBM\u2019s Call for Code Global Challenge.\r\n\r\nIn collaboration with partners around the world, Esri is building tools, models, and datasets that will form the geospatial infrastructure essential to understanding an interconnected and interdependent Earth. For example, Esri has been working with the POPGRID Data Collaborative to develop a better global, high-resolution gridded representation of human settlement that is being shared via ArcGIS Online.\r\n\r\nA geospatial framework enables a holistic approach for creating a more sustainable world. Whether building livable cities, more effectively responding to disasters, or addressing the twin problems of the world\u2019s energy needs and climate change, the intrinsically geographic approach of GIS leads to innovative solutions. A nonprofit, The Ray, is using GIS to identify the previously overlooked solar power potential of land adjacent to the nation's 47,000 miles of interstate highway. In Iowa, analysis revealed 38,000 acres that were prime spots for solar installation that could potentially produce five million megawatt-hours per year, valued at $400 million.\r\n\r\nTwo things that previously constrained the application of GIS\u2014scarcity of data and time-intensive analysis\u2014have been upended in the last decade. An abundance of data from satellite imagery, remote sensing, drone acquisition, Internet of Things (IoT) sensors, crowdsourcing, and the data-sharing platforms of government agencies and businesses has been unleashed. 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