Awards & Nominations
RainStock has received the following awards and nominations. Way to go!
Global Nominee
RainStock
High-Level Project Summary
An application was developed that reduces environmental injustice seeking to balance the demands for water, in addition to identifying these regions of drought, the application will receive donations for the creation of collectors in order to filter and store rainwater in low-income communities that were disproportionately impacted on access to water resources for reuse, with the possibility of boiling and using for their own consumption.
Link to Project "Demo"
Link to Final Project
Detailed Project Description
Using “EJSCREEN”, the mapping of the sites will be done, where the least affected sites will be presented by shades of colors to those most affected by the lack of water resources for reuse. From this, RainStock was created with the purpose of collecting donations of money or materials for the creation and installation of collectors with rainwater filter. Users, in addition to helping people in need, will receive points that can be exchanged for discount coupons and other services offered by companies wishing to support the project.
RainStock will benefit low-income communities by bringing water collectors to underserved places with scarcity. We aim to reduce the environmental injustice of precarious areas with water for reuse coming from the cisterns, which can even be used for their own consumption with appropriate treatments.
Several tools were used to create our project, namely: “Figma” for screen prototyping, “Infogram” for creating graphics, “Sebrae Canvas” for making the business model, “Trello” for organizing the team, “ Canva” for creating the logo, “PowerPoint” for the slides and “Adobe Premiere” for editing the pitch video.
Space Agency Data
What inspired us to start our project was the theme "Environmental Justice: A Call to Action with NASA Earth Observations", which addressed the issue of environmental justice, where low-income communities suffer disproportionately compared environmental impacts with regions with greater purchasing power.
Using the “EJSCREEN” mapping that shows places with a lack of water resources, RainStock was created, which allows users to make donations to create cisterns to help people living with water shortages.
Hackathon Journey
It was a unique experience for the whole group, where we were able to share, discuss and align ideas and thoughts in search of solving a bigger problem, the challenge. A period of a lot of learning, not only with the issue of communities that are disproportionately affected due to environmental risks, and all the problems that this involved, or the tools used, but also the way to deal with the team, always looking for a solution. of activity as best as possible in this short and intense period of Hackathon.
Our team's desire to propose a solution for populations suffering from the problem of environmental injustice arose from examples that exist in our own country, Brazil. The northeast region is greatly affected by its caatinga climate and abused by sugarcane monoculture in its entirety, making the soil precarious with the loss of nutrients and the absence of rain, which causes this lack of water resources that, in theory, they are among the basic things that the population should have access to.
Despite being a context closer to the country in which we live, the main factor for choosing the challenge was the desire to solve a major problem that could help the lives of countless people who suffer from the lack of this resolution.
During the development of the project, several setbacks arose, such as the choice of theme, and with that defined, we looked for the challenge that most interested us. Several ideas to solve the problem of environmental injustice were emerging in our thoughts and finally, we chose the problem of lack of water that occurs in various locations around the globe.
References
Tags
#water, #environmentjustice, #stockrainwater, #cistern, #donation #RainStock #communities
Global Judging
This project has been submitted for consideration during the Judging process.