According to the World Water Assessment Program, today, half the world’s population lives in urban areas. Because of this, many of the world cities are growing exponentially and unchecked urban sprawl is spawning areas that lack water infrastructure. The objective of this project is the development of water and produce (food) generating facilities to be implemented as independent, self-sufficient interventions (urban acupuncture) within impoverished communities. The idea is to stablish a network of interdependent facilities that could be placed around the informal settlements creating a series of interventions that function more as acupuncture than urban development making of it by its own nature a financially feasible proposal designed to directly serve a large number of people through architectural elements that require minimal maintenance and the possibility of creating local jobs while helping solve the water and food crisis in informal settlements around the developing world.