Quartz Water Source
Quartz Water Source
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Description
Our company is bringing the first-ever water outage protection product (WOPP) to market. It can be conceptualized as a water insurance. The client municipality pays our company monthly recurring payments to be placed on a crisis response. Should a water crisis or outage occur, Quartz will deploy "plug and play" atmospheric water generation (AWG) technology in 48-72 hours. This technology acts like a scalable and recurring source of second-line clean water. We don't compete with municipal water but rather complement it in the event of a crisis or outage. After the crisis or outage subsides, the AWG technology
This action is a straight pathway to significantly improved resilience and adaptive capacity in the event of a water crisis or outage. In many geographies across the U.S., and even across the world, this is a function of "when" not "if."
Our partners include the Community Foundation of Greater Flint and a veteran-owned atmospheric water generational technology manufacturer.
You can have a look at a few links: - Investor deck: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1vcOT41ux5_cX3RLXNf0EPDHxWNfb4x96?usp=sharing - MEDC article about Quartz: https://www.michiganbusiness.org/reports-data/success-stories/quartz-water-source/ - Hennessy 'Never Stop Never Settle' selection: https://www.blackenterprise.com/hennessy-announces-selection-of-20-black-entrepreneurs-for-its-1m-never-stop-never-settle-program/amp/ - Quartz announced as 1 of 300 impactful companies by Real Leaders Impact Awards: https://real-leaders.com/impact-awards-2023/
SDGS & Targets
Goal 13
Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts
13.1
Strengthen resilience and adaptive capacity to climate-related hazards and natural disasters in all countries
13.1.1
Number of deaths, missing persons and directly affected persons attributed to disasters per 100,000 population
13.1.2
Number of countries that adopt and implement national disaster risk reduction strategies in line with the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030
13.1.3
Proportion of local governments that adopt and implement local disaster risk reduction strategies in line with national disaster risk reduction strategies
13.2
Integrate climate change measures into national policies, strategies and planning
13.2.1
Number of countries with nationally determined contributions, long-term strategies, national adaptation plans and adaptation communications, as reported to the secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
13.2.2
Total greenhouse gas emissions per year
13.3
Improve education, awareness-raising and human and institutional capacity on climate change mitigation, adaptation, impact reduction and early warning
13.3.1
Extent to which (i) global citizenship education and (ii) education for sustainable development are mainstreamed in (a) national education policies; (b) curricula; (c) teacher education; and (d) student assessment
13.a
Implement the commitment undertaken by developed-country parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change to a goal of mobilizing jointly $100 billion annually by 2020 from all sources to address the needs of developing countries in the context of meaningful mitigation actions and transparency on implementation and fully operationalize the Green Climate Fund through its capitalization as soon as possible
13.a.1
Amounts provided and mobilized in United States dollars per year in relation to the continued existing collective mobilization goal of the $100 billion commitment through to 2025
13.b
Promote mechanisms for raising capacity for effective climate change-related planning and management in least developed countries and small island developing States, including focusing on women, youth and local and marginalized communities
13.b.1
Number of least developed countries and small island developing States with nationally determined contributions, long-term strategies, national adaptation plans and adaptation communications, as reported to the secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
SDG 14 targets covered
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Deliverables & Timeline
Finish working on our underwriting model for the pricing of the product
Map out and confirm all the execution logistics around storing and deployment of the AQG
Launch a pilot with a partnering municipality
Close pre-seed funding round
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SDGs
Region
- Africa
- North America
Other beneficiaries
The residents of our client municipalities are the biggest beneficiaries of our services.
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Contact Information
Jonathan, Founder & CEO