The problem Water is Life solves

Water Quality Improvement Initiative: The Water is Life Project directly addresses the alarming statistic that approximately 400,000 children under the age of 5 die annually from water, sanitation, and hygiene-related diseases (UNICEF Triple Threat). Through decentralized attestations, a trust network among citizen scientists can be established, ensuring the credibility of data collected globally.

Citizen Scientists Decentralized Group: For this project, the vision is a decentralized group of citizen scientists collaborating to improve water quality. The project empowers individuals worldwide to contribute to a shared goal, facilitated by on-chain attestations and an embeddable Silk Wallet, which allows users to share data and make community posts about project progress on a token gated dapp. This would allow the citizen scientists without formal data science and/or data engineering training to easily and quickly validate data, and minimize tech support staff for their work.

Challenges I ran into

Challenges included Dockerizing with blockchain technologies, resolving GitPod virtual environment and folder visibility issues, and running nodes within a virtual environment.