To save water: iWater
03
Nov
An application to help save water was built by a student of only 16 years, Victor Capilé, 16, developed the iWater, and explained that the application beyond counting water withdrawal also brings information and curiosities about water resources in the world promoting greater awareness of the water.
He told the story of a portal: “I believe that the lack of water can also trigger wars unless we do something. So we decided to take the project forward, because people need to have that awareness, “according to the Earth.
Free Standing and application was created for a school science fair Garriga de Menezes last year and is available online in iwater.capile.net address.
The student involved colleagues from school, and now the students are working to improve the app and started a fundraiser to provide a version for smartphones on websites of various lines of handsets.
There are other applications, the Basic Sanitation Company of the State of São Paulo created a Water Our application, developed by Akatu and the Brazilian Federation of Banks, to conscious of water consumption, it also allows the estimation and design the discount that can get in the water bill.
The UN predicts that the population of the planet will need something around 40% more water by 2030 and that the inappropriate and excessive consumption may produce a generalized crisis that awareness exists only in time of crisis and the Brazilians still are far from ecological and climatic problems
