Inspiration

Over 2 billion people worldwide lack reliable access to safe drinking water, and millions of wells fail each year due to poor placement, contamination, or declining groundwater. We realized that the problem is not just physical, it is informational. Satellite and environmental data already exists, but it is fragmented and inaccessible to the communities and organizations that need it most. We asked a simple question: What if anyone could see where a well should actually be built before drilling?

What it does

Flo is a geospatial AI platform that aggregates satellite imagery, hydrology, topography, and contamination data to generate a Water Viability Score for potential well sites. Users can select a global view or a specific region to identify optimal well locations, reducing failed drilling projects, conserving resources, and ensuring long-term access to safe water. Flo transforms complex environmental data into accessible and understandable information for equitable water planning.

How we built it

Languages & Frameworks: Flutter, Dart, TypeScript, Node.js, C++ , Swift, Shell, Script
Databases & APIs: Firebase, Google Earth Studio Database, Gemini API, Vertex AI
Tech Highlights: Normalizing and weighing hydrology, precipitation, topography, and avoidance datasets to calculate optimal well locations

Challenges we ran into

Using Flutter for the first time and learning its ecosystem
Learning the intricacies of Google technologies like the Gemini API
Aggregating and processing large-scale geospatial and environmental datasets

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Built a platform capable of analyzing global water well locations
Successfully normalized and weighed multiple environmental factors to produce actionable Water Viability Scores
Created an interface that allows users to explore optimized well locations regionally or globally

What we learned

How to process, normalize, and combine diverse geospatial datasets
Best practices for integrating Flutter with backend APIs and cloud databases
The importance of making technical environmental data accessible to non experts
How vital the global water access issue truly is and the impact better information can have