The Last-Mile Paradox - Article Published In Water Canada Magazine - Issue Nov-Dec 2025 Pp. 11-13

An article by Keyvan Maleki (CEO). The piece calls for a fundamental shift toward decentralized, community-designed systems, long-term partnerships, and fully integrated infrastructure—developed through interdisciplinary teams and genuine co-creation—to build resilient services that can operate reliably in isolation and drive sustainable local development. Achieving this requires a new model of cross-sector, multidisciplinary problem-solving in which engineers, health experts, digital and AI professionals, system operators, energy specialists, policy makers, and community knowledge holders work as a truly unified team rather than in parallel silos. By bringing these diverse perspectives together from the outset, communities can develop solutions that are technically robust, culturally aligned, and capable of thriving in remote environments.