Win $5,000 CAD

Redesign the Future of Water

The 2025 B-Prize Design Challenge is calling on students across Canada to rethink one of Ontario’s most complex regional water systems—the 57km Collingwood–New Tecumseth pipeline. This is more than a design competition. It’s a chance to take on a real-world challenge, propose smarter, more inclusive solutions, and show how fresh thinking can reshape the way we manage essential resources. Use your creativity, systems thinking, and collaborative spirit to design a better future—and get recognized for it.

Unshackling the Water

the challenge

The pipeline is a regional challenge and the task is to move raw material (nature’s offering) to as many human needs as possible, within multiple municipalities, and with maximum efficiency. 

Once you register, you will have access to an information package but generally, we are inviting you to explore the creative ways you can optimize this resource to serve a region with a diversity of needs, considering the following:

  • raw water feed, 
  • multiple end uses (commercial, agricultural, residential, industrial, groundwater recharge, etc.) 
  • all requiring various conditions of water, 
  • a pipeline that transcends multiple municipalities, 
  • with different perspectives, desires, and leadership, 
  • being pressured by different sources (e.g. developers, climate, reconciliation, citizens, economics, etc.).


This water design challenge is not just an exercise in reducing costs, it’s a chance to show what's possible when fresh thinking meets real-world challenges.

Make it better, naturally

To effectively solve this problem, you will need to think holistically; think naturally. Bringing in a multitude of relevant considerations and assessing them from a higher-level paradigm, we invite you to think with a biomimetic lens. In nature, when things are left alone, a system will naturally evolve to higher states of complexity. Yet, within that, everything is working, without waste, evolving towards greater diversity and natural abundance. Nature can teach us how to design systems that work for the greater good without harming the planet. Nature creates engineered systems that serve the planet and support the stability of our species. It is now our opportunity to learn from this genius to find a better way of doing things. To create the foundation – the soil – based on a new way of thinking that will lead to a more dynamic and beautiful world that our future generations will be proud of.
satellite imagery of Georgian Bay

How to enter

  • Register by enrolling in the competition as an individual or as a team

  • Download the information briefs

  • Research the complexity of the problem

  • Design a solution

  • Submit your idea

  • Win $5,000

What will your bold new solution be?

Look beyond the obvious

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Join the Commons

The Biomimicry Commons is more than just a community; it represents a movement toward rethinking how we approach the world's most pressing challenges. In an era where conventional solutions often fall short, the Biomimicry Commons advocates for looking at problems through different lenses, particularly through nature-based design principles. By encouraging creative, out-of-the-box thinking, the community pushes for solutions that are not only innovative but also sustainable, resilient, and reflective of the complex systems found in nature. The goal is to inspire participants to reimagine how we solve today’s challenges—whether environmental, social, or infrastructural—by drawing on new perspectives and being willing to test unorthodox ideas. One way the Biomimicry Commons does this is through B Prizes, competitions that challenge participants to tackle significant, real-world problems with groundbreaking solutions. These prizes incentivize participants to go beyond traditional approaches, offering rewards for creative thinking and practical results.

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