Neptuno

The problem which we are trying to solve is the scarcity of water in Mexico City and the idea is to use the rain water which right now is wasted. 

The lack of a functioning water system in Mexico City is a problem that affects all of the residents especially the ones who live in crowded zones or low income zones. This is because there is not enough water for the growing population of the city and the water that is available is not equally distributed. The 26% of the population does not recieve the sufficient amount of water, the 15% does not count with a daily water service and almost 1.8 million of habitants need to use pipes in order to access water, this means that they need to use alternate options because there is not enough water.

Currently the water used in Mexico City is extracted from the aquifers which leads to making the ground unstable which is especially dangerous taking on account that Mexico City is a seismic zone. Additionally, another percentage of the water used in the city comes from the Cutzamala system which is located very far from the city, causing it to use enourmous amounts of energy. Finnaly, according to Milenio (a mexican newspaper) 30% of the water from the system is wasted because of the inefficient system that is used.

This is a water system which main purpose is to clean the rain water in Mexico City in order to be able to give it a use. The process which follows the system is: 

1. The rainwater enters to the system through the (coladera/rejilla)

2. The container stores the rainwater.

3. When the rainwater reaches a certain measurement, the poly-glu cleans the water.Then after x seconds (x means the number of seconds that the poly-glu takes to clean the water) When time = x  the step 4 takes place. 

Letter "a" symbolizes the hole where the poly-glu comes out. 

4. A door opens when time = x. This means that the water is clean and can now pass through another filter. 

5. The water passes through a (rejilla) of holes, each hole measures 25 nanometers. Because of the size of the holes, bacteria can't pass through. 

After x seconds ( x means the amount of seconds that the water takes to pass through the filter), a device causes suction and absorbs the waste. 

Letter "b" symbolizes the device that causes suction

6. Water is now clean and will travel through pipelines to every house in Mexico City.

The main target for our solution is Mexico City population as a hole, but more specifically the low income zones and the population that does  not have acces to water as a concequence of a poor distribution and recollection system.

This solution looks to take advantage of the rain water, which is abundant in Mexico City thanks to the weather, and in this way there will be more water available for the population.

We are both finishing highschool and we have shown a great interest in changing the reality of Mexico City. 

We have both reaserched about different problems that currently exist, so we are well-informed abour the reality. 

We need help on building a team capable of helping us build our system and to make improvals to that it can function perfectly. We also need help legally to be able to have an agreement with Mexico City's government. If our solution is selected we will work on funding a prototype and will take further steps to do test to see how can we work with the topography of the city. 

Our solution is innovative because we incorporate different technologies to solve a real problem that it's primordial to solve: water scarcity.

This is a new solution to replace the two main water systems in México City: The Cutzamala system and the aquifers, both systems are unsustainable and don't contribute to one of the SDGs goals. A change needs to be made.

We expect it to be able to change how water is transported to each house, we want everyone to have these important resource, we want to create a positive impact in the carbon footprint by replacing the unsustainable system that obtain water nowadays. 

We want to have prototype that works and start offering the product to different places in Mexico City. We would start in small locations like houses or apartments to later implement it in bigger locations.

In order to be able to that we would need to gather a team of specialist that help us build our system, to later apply it to the city.

In order to measure our progress we would measure the amount of water cleaned, in order to know how much water we are saving. As time passes by we will change the current water systems in México City so at the end we would have solved many problems, such as day zero, waste of water, floods, among other things.

We expect to be able to take México City out of the lists of cities in risk of running out of water or to at least provide clean water to most of the population, by replacing the inefficient system that exist nowadays.

Stage 1: Create a prototype + Study the properties of the soil + Fundraising 

Stage 2: Obtain goverment payments 

Stage 3: Build the system 

The technology that powers our solution is mainly programming, because this will allow our system to clean the water based on time intervals.

We will help communities such as hornos to get enough water to sustain their household. We will connect the whole city with an ergonomic system that will provide clean and  drinkable water to the hole city. 

In order to fund our work we plan to obtain donations and grants from business that are interested in our proposal.

It's just a concept