Phoebe Koundouri is Professor in Economics and Director of ReSEES Laboratory at the School of Economics of the Athens University of Economics and Business and Director of the Sustainable Development Research Unit at ATHENA Information Technology Research Center. She holds a MPhil and a PhD in Economics from the University of Cambridge and is recognized as a pioneer in innovative, human-centric, interdisciplinary systems for the sustainable interaction between nature, society, and the economy. Based on her work in the project Water-Futures, she will share an outlook on how the water infrastructure in cities of the future will look like. Crisis and increasingly uncertain climate conditions have increased the need for a more holistic and intelligent decision-making in the management of water infrastructures, how can these systems become more socially equitable, economically efficient and environmentally resilient?