Increasing threat of floods due to climate change has raised a necessity to develop sponge cities.

https://climatechampions.unfccc.int/what-are-sponge-cities-and-how-can-they-prevent-floods/#:~:text='Sponge%20cities'%20are%20urban%20areas,floods%20due%20to%20climate%20change.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/sponge-cities-can-limit-urban-floods-and-droughts/

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666916121000153

https://www.worldfuturecouncil.org/sponge-cities-what-is-it-all-about/