# Yaku · Water

# Yaku

**Country:** Colombia
**Category:** Water
**Impact Areas:** Mitigation
**Stage:** Ideation
**Team Size:** 1
**Website:** http://yaku-wt.com
**Funded:** NO

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## Elevator Pitch
Yaku is a greywater collection and distribution system for comercial and residential buildings to save water we already waste.

## Climate Problem
Water scarcity

## Solution
Yaku is a modular system for capturing, filtering, and redistributing greywater for internal reuse in buildings (toilets, irrigation, cleaning) without impacting the building’s internal plumbing. It is installed in underutilized spaces.

## Revenue Model
1\. Selling the units 2\. Renting the units and/or leasing them 3\. Maintenance and Bio Filter replacement

## Target Market
Construction Companies, Real Estate Developers, Property Owners, NGOs, governments

## Social Impact
People of African Descent Indigenous Peoples Roma, Sinti and Travelers Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities Migrants Refugees, Asylum-seekers, and Internally Displaced People People Living in Extreme Poverty Women LGBTQI+ People

## Demand Evidence
We are running out of water, our largest water reservoirs in Cundinamarca are reaching critical levels and the cities have been in a water saving plan periodically (which doesn't work) and deforestation has lowered the amount of rainfall in our region.

## Competitors
There are only companies that do this on an industrial level, there's no such system for multi-family homes in Colombia.

## Founder Expertise
Sales and passion, I've been in sales for 12 years and I want this to be my purpose in life.

## External Support
None at all, it's on ideation stage, have received some free consultancies from friends and family and that's it.

## Team
I'm the Founder & CEO (Chief Everything Officer)

## Founder
Felipe Roa