VitaVesi

A community-based technology solution that will provide untapped populations with access to water and food without affecting the environment and with minimal cultural intervention through automation of software processes.

During the last decade, various areas of the world, especially areas of difficult access, have been limited in access to basic resources for human life, such as water and food. However, it is not a problem that is being addressed with the level of urgency that it deserves, since,  approximately 2 billion people worldwide do not have access to safe drinking water, and the number increases as water sanitation systems fail in several countries, especially in several regions of the Americas and Africa. We can add that another major problem that affects today’s society is hunger, in 2022 there were 345 million hungry people worldwide and thousands of people die for the same cause. 

The lack of access to water and food is a social crisis that human beings must face from their roots. These needs must be addressed before sanitation systems fail and result in a systematic failure that will affect the proper development of the human rights and social equality system worldwide.

VitaVesi is a practical solution that by means of pre-Columbian technology used by the Incas and with the help of current technology seeks to strengthen access to water and food for all those who live in areas of difficult access. The system of VitaVesi is complatible with any territory, this adaptability is due to the fact that it is a system of set of technologies that can be adapted to different climatic adversities or inaccessible territories. This is intended to meet the basic needs of communities affected by the poor functioning of water and food sanitation systems around the world.

Problems of access to drinking water and food are at an unprecedented rate in human history, and more and more people are dying from diseases that lack of water or food can cause in their bodies. 

VitaVesi is composed of more than 4 types of technologies ranging from 1438 to the present and can be applied at any scale.

The use of Inca platforms, solar detoxification processes, ceramic filter with smart grids and activated carbon, in addition, the microfiltration process by means of membranes are essential components for the operation of the project. It seeks to change the functioning of one of the spaces of the Inca platforms and have a use in the collection of groundwater and rain to go through a certain amount of processes necessary for its decontamination and become drinking water. 

In the same way the remaining platforms will be used for the cultivation of endemic and edible plants, the products that are sown are not subject to chemicals that can contaminate the land or the water that is intended to be collected, the fertilizers to be used will be 100 % organic, thus promoting minimal ecological damage. 

VitaVesi seeks to provide water and food to people from communities marginalized and delayed by current urban development, without affecting their own cultures or customs. 3 of the filtering systems will work under a software that will be responsible for the equitable distribution of water, food must be collected by people living in the area to which the project is focused. 

VitaVesi seeks to help all those communities that have problems with access to food water. Today the lives of millions of people are changing in a negative way because of deteriorating food and water systems around the world. 2.2 million adults die each year from water-related diseases and 23,000 children die of diarrhoea from drinking contaminated water, however, the change in these figures is not extinguished and on the contrary they are increasing. 

VitaVesi seeks to be a solution that directly and significantly improves the lives of millions of people worldwide. This project is born of conversations and listening to the unimaginable but real and cruel need faced by people who do not have water and food in their homes. During the research of this project we discovered that the majority of indigenous peoples around the world have this problem in their communities and that their struggle to receive help transcends years of history that apparently continues to be forgotten because no one has given them a solution. 

VitaVesi also seeks to implement this project and help millions of people, also seeks that water and food be recognized as an inalienable human right throughout the world and that this way governments have to worry more about the proper functioning of their systems. 

This project is intended to positively affect the lives of those who today suffer from shortages of water and food, but that in addition in the implementation of the solution is taken into account the environment and the conversation of cultures and customs when it is the case that work near areas where there are native peoples. 

VitaVesi is a large project that needs to work hand in hand with various organizations and companies to achieve its goals. The development of this program transcends the need to help certain groups of people who need it, over the years we have worked on a smaller scale with various projects, helping people living in extreme poverty in Costa Rica, In these areas we have visited we notice the problems faced by these people to do things that most of us see very "simple" such as washing our hands or eating more than once a day. During the pandemic, many of the people we knew from previous social programs in marginalized areas died from the virus as a result of not having access to water that would allow them to wash their hands when necessary. These kinds of events allowed us to realize a reality that for a billion people around the world is practically non-existent, the life experiences of these people demonstrate the help that should exist for these communities. At one point we met indigenous leaders who told us how they have to buy water or drink water from rivers that are contaminated by livestock activities that take place near their territory, These people have been victims of a system of universal and sanitation of water that does not exist even in countries like Costa Rica that represents one of the best drinking water systems in the world. This same problem is what gave life to VitaVesi, in order to try to bring minimum conditions of dignified life to people who lack access to water or basic foods from a diet. 

According to the UN approximately 2.6 billion people do not have access to water sanitation and another 828 million suffer under the effects of food shortages worldwide, all these individuals are essential to the existence of the project, However, the pilot plan of the project is planned for areas of very difficult human access in Costa Rica, specifically indigenous territories of the Talamanca area where accessibility is limited to travel by helicopter. These villages face increasing challenges to access safe water, which allows us to consider it as one of the places with the best territorial conditions for the implementation of the solution, various indigenous leaders have told us that certain people of this population only eat endemic products of the area so that is one of the main goals of the project and that in this way does not affect the gastronomic stability to which they are accustomed the people of these areas. Various organizations have sought to solve the access of water and food to these areas, but the intervention to their culture is what prevents the projects from moving forward, However, with VitaVise automation with software involves minimal cultural and environmental intervention with the work areas. The villages analyzed present the same two basic needs; water and food, same that VitaVise seeks to take these people and help them to have a better quality of life. Various potential users believe that the minimal cultural intervention, the care of the environment and the access provided are essential for the existence of the future of their communities, they themselves have not provided ideas for the creation of natural fertilizers and insecticides that they have had to develop for their livelihood and that they consider that VitaVise could be mass produced for their projects.  

VitaVise is an innvovadora solution because it seeks to give a second life to technologies almost disappeared in the world as they are the Inca platforms that had only one use, but that are the use of current technologies has a second use that guarantees to reduce even in index of diseases in the world for lack of access to water. 

The use of software in comparison with other projects ensures the correct functioning of the systems with what they compare each of the platforms, In this way the intervention with diverse non-globalised cultures will be minimal and the cultural impact can be considered practically non-existent. In addition, the environment benefits from this project will provide the soil with less degradation and therefore less loss of fauna and flora in the project area. 

With the help of various non-profit organizations and private companies with social projects in their annual plans, the small-scale project will be implemented for approximately 50 people from the indigenous territory of Talamanca, this same pilot project will be used to obtain data related to the maximum scope that can be given to the project. 

VitaVise wants to positively impact people’s lives and guarantee them a life with minimal resources for the correct human development. It is estimated that this project will reduce disease-related deaths due to lack of water and food around the world. 

The project aims to meet the needs of more than 2.6 billion people affected by access to water and food, This solution seeks that water is included in the declaration of human rights and that in this way governments are obliged to meet the basic needs of water and food sanitation. 

If VitaVise has the necessary support the implementation of the solution will expand to remote areas around the world, for this very reason of reaching millions of people it is believed that social and economic development certain areas will be more evident and attainable for anyone after the project begins to work. 

Since 1438 the Incas counted on the platforms as their agricultural system, however, there is a space in the lower part that was never used, based on that space it occurred to us that it can be used for the collection of groundwater and rain, which if they go through various processes can be drinking. 

The Inca platforms were easy to adapt to two types of orographies, but their forms were unique and not modifiable, however, from the help with various studies and engineers we managed to adapt the same system of Inca platforms for various territories that have a different geography to that of Peru, in this way we ensure an adaptability and correct functioning of 98% in the territories where the project is intended to give.

Various filters will be implemented in this solution, but most have a modification that we decided to add to get results related to technological advancement in these "basic filters" that are of general knowledge, but they lack the power to decontaminate the water on their own. This way VitaVesi seeks to advance clean filter technology around the world. 

The solar detoxification filter is one of the first processes to which the water will be subjected, but after several hours of research we conclude that it cannot be submitted directly to the sun, so that sunlight passes through a strategic point that produces ultra-violent light and thus does not generate disinfection byproducts that are problematic for people’s health.

The ceramic filters will be applied on a large scale for this project, where it will have a subdivision of nets that stop any type of garbage that carries the water, so that later it can pass freely to the ceramic filter, the networks will be cleaned by a dirt sensor that will give the signal to the software so that a program of automation of robotic processes takes care of collecting the dirty part and replacing it.

In the activated carbon filters we will have an advanced system of elimination of parasites and bacteria to guarantee the sanitation of water by 98%, this filter and its technology will allow us to be sure that in case of contamination or poisoning of water the health of people will not be at risk, The choice of this filter was after considerable research where we find in various studies that the activated carbon filter has been effective in removing chemical products from water as with the Arsenic. 

At the beginning of the project we thought that the reverse osmosis filter was the right one to end the water cleaning process, however, the prices of this treatment would make it unaffordable for many communities, and one of our objectives is the acceptability of to any community to this project so after extensive time trying to find a solution we discover the water management through membranes, this way we plan that the last filter to preserve and clean the water completely will be microfiltration by means of menbranes which has a cost 60 times lower than reverse osmosis. 

The microfiltration filter by means of membranes will be drawn hand in hand with the biologic departments of two universities in Costa Rica, the use of this filter allows us to estimate a water conservation of 2 to 4 months due to the fact that the microfiltration stops the majority of substances in substitution, in this way to filter a high number of different types of large cloids, bacteria, microorganisms and even in some cases viruses. 

The fertilizers and insecticides used were planned hand in hand with people from indigenous villages and based on scientific research, In the case of fertilizers will consist of Ceratonia Siliguia and Lolium Perenne two components 100% natural and not harmful to human health, for insecticides will be used Tulbaghia Violacea which by its strong odor is able to claim any type of pest. 

The construction and planning of this project is estimated to have a minimal economic cost because it is intended to work with various universities so that all stages that need labor are counted as student communal work. 

Because the more remote communities are demographically smaller the intervention of heavy machinery was not considered necessary because the dimensions of the projects have been adapted so that they can be built only with people and basic tools for any construction.

The software and automation system of robotic processes guarantees us a low and only economic cost of the project, because it is the same system for several areas. This tells us that the VitaVesi water and food access system has 30% lower cost than a project to access water through underground pipes.

VitaVesi currently has zero beneficiaries, this because it has been working on adapting and planning the solution structurally and economically. 

In one year approximately 2115 people belonging to the community of Talamanca and Chirripo (Costa Rica) will be helped.  This number of people was recorded by the national population census. 

The 2115 people have difficulty in accessing water and food, usually land access is practically non-existent. 

Within six years it is intended to have helped more than 104 thousand people from the 24 most remote territories of Costa Rica and who have difficulty accessing water and food. 

For the projections of the solution in ten years it is estimated to be helping 9 million people between the territories of Central America, Colombia and Peru. 

Once the most vulnerable areas of America are covered, this project is intended to be implemented in mountainous areas of Africa where it is estimated to help 4 million people from this continent. 

In conclusion VitaVise has projections based on various projects with a lower rate of acceptability, so our estimates increase by 10% compared to those projects. In the short term of one year it is estimated that 2115 people would belong to the solution and this thanks to the proximity they have geographically. 

VitaVise is born from 13 of the 17 sustainable development goals set by the UN so it is sought that the governments of each country be responsible for the initiative as an implementation of their government plans in relation to meet the previous objectives that are part of the UNO plan. 

Legal problems are a barrier that seeks to end up turning VitaVise into an international non-profit organization, in this way we could consolidate even more in areas around the world. 

One of the main barriers could be the economy, however, with the support of companies, volunteers and universities seeking to cover the costs of the project, in addition to involving other organizations and the governments of each country. 

Time is one of the most worrying barriers in this project, because the lack of access to water and food that people suffer are two factors that will not wait for permits among other things. This would be the most obvious problem, but that is sought to be solved by consolidating strategic alliances that help the consolidation of the solution in the shortest time possible. 

One of the barriers that most worried people when VitaVise was starting was that in the case of helping an indigenous (indigenous) community there could be an unwanted cultural intervention, but this was solved by automating the project through a system of software, sensors and robotic process automation. 

The adaptability of the solution following the variation of the terrain from one country to another was one of the main problems, but with the help of engineers and other people we managed to adapt the same system of Inca platforms on an average of 90% of the land anywhere in the world. 

The market for filters is very much in demand so their prices in most cases meant a problem, but for this same reason it is working with various universities so that filters are created in laboratories and by students, so that this same collaboration counts as communal work. 

From VitaVesi we know that on the way to the implementation of our solution we will see many problems, but we hope that with the help of many more people we will give correct solutions to those barriers that arise in the future.

VitaVesi is currently working on planning strategic partnerships to facilitate the evolution of each stage of the project. 

This strategic partnership plan includes engineers, construction companies, hardware store, universities, experimental colleges, governments, non-profit organizations and other institutions that seek the common good of the various vulnerable populations around the world. 

VitaVesi plans to work with a social and impact business model that has direct consequences on the exponential growth of volunteering and sponsorship of various public and private institutions around the world. 

This solution will have a value proposition that will work simultaneously with different types of differential advantages that ensure success and healthy competition within the project. 

The structure of economic costs arises so that investment, income and expenses exist simultaneously. In this same area we will work with resources, partners and key actors for the correct execution of the VitaVesi system, in addition, we will seek a considerable growth of the project through various channels that generate between VitaVesi, donors and beneficiaries enough communication so that together they seek points of improvement.

VitaVesi has several plans that simultaneously work focused on a single flank that is the fundraising for the realization of the project. We decided that they would be different systems looking for the same objective, but working from different bases, this would allow us to obtain multiple styles of donations. 

The financing methods are the Big Bettor that is responsible for seeking grants from some individuals or foundations to finance our operations, with the Public Provider we seek to be considered as essential social service providers for which the government already has a certain amount of money earmarked and which is subcontracted to VitaVesi in the function of providing an access service to water and food for third parties, our third method is the Policy Innovator which seeks to demonstrate to governments alternative methods of Vita Vesi provide solutions more effective and less expensive than existing programs, then we have the Resource Recycler with which we seek to reduce costs on materials and generate an exponentially increased through the collection of donations in kind from corporations and individuals and the use of such goods for project purposes, Finally we have the method of Local Nationalizer in which we seek to consolidate a grown through the creation of a national and international network of local operations by raising awareness with the goals of VitaVesi on behalf of vulnerable communities.