Unite

People need to cooperate and unite around a common agenda to roll back the strain we have put on earth’s resources, especially water in this case. “Unite” is our way to lead these efforts. To involve, educate, enable, democratize, make accessible, and unite everyone on equal terms and based on the same conditions.

Everyone can be a part of this grassroots movement to spread the knowledge about clean drinking water from natural sources and how it helps the planet's health. The project’s founders have developed a strategy to seamlessly hand off control of the ecosystem to a DAO that operates on a model that maintains sustainability for 150 uninterrupted years. The handoff will be completed within ten years. The project runs on a model that prioritizes sustainability, while it rewards the founders within the first ten-year period. After this phase, every income the project generates will be redirected into maintaining infrastructure, rewarding well owners, acquiring new water sources and reserves and charitable causes.

The grassroots movement

We create the conditions for a unique grassroots movement through the Longhouse ecosystem, where everyone co-operates in generating water and sharing access to such water resources. The democratization and decentralization of the blockchain, together with the statutes of the Longhouse Foundation, eliminates intermediaries, third parties, capitalist interests, and private agendas from the project. People are connected to a grassroots movement, where all votes are equal, irrespective of status. Everyone obtains their water rights through the blockchain without any intermediary or third parties influencing ownership.

By accessing Water150 Platform, users can buy the Water150 token or receive Charity tokens. The Water150 token and the charity token are separate from each other.

When the Water150 project becomes a true DAO, within ten years, a voting mechanism will be implemented for the token holders. This voting right will give the token holder the opportunity to affect decisions on i.e. how to handle access to water on a global scale. That is the demonstration of genuine, global, and united world democracy facilitated by the blockchain.

All for one, one for all

The Unite section of the Longhouse ecosystem motivates cooperation and collaboration, working towards a collective goal. The goal is to develop a sustainable system, with the Water150 token at its center, financing and rewarding every activity towards maintaining the Water150 system globally. We hope to fully implement a system that will support the global water economy within 10 to 15 years, following each step in our 150-year plan.

The Water150 project will run indefinitely, while the Longhouse Foundation behind the project has a 150-year perspective. One hundred fifty years equals roughly seven generations (21 years per generation). The project’s philosophy and decisions reflect the foundation’s 150-year timeline. Every project decision will consider the seven-generation perspective to ensure long-term sustainability. Statutes or votes will guide every water rights decision the Longhouse Foundation makes through the blockchain. In this way, the water rights are democratized, and no individual position or interest will be more valuable than the other. We will all stand for the same values and goals: distributing the right to access drinking water and survival.

Token trades as an enabler

By becoming a Water150 token holder, traders may help people solve their water problem and supports the project's development. If a trader with considerable economic resources makes a large trade, it affects the entire ecosystem because it provides access to clean drinking water through charity tokens. The Longhouse ecosystem benefits everyone.

Allocation of water

Longhouse’s vision will provide access to water rights for everyone. Each Water150 token, as previously described, grants access to one (1) liter of clean drinking water per year for perpetuity (via the drop token mechanism).

People that want to collect their water can go to their assigned water well. Since the water comes in a natural flow divided over a specific timeframe, there will be a specific slot and booking based process to collect the water. A limited amount of water can be collected at once to prevent drought, and this volume is controlled through the booking process. The Water150 token owner can book a time slot for water collecting as per a date they like and the amount is available. Thanks to nature and Longhouse’s water flow model, the token holders may return every year to collect the same amount without exhausting water sources. The procedure is the same no matter how many Water150 tokens the owner possesses.

Is the blockchain really needed?

The simple answer is YES. Blockchain technology facilitates the decentralization of ownership and elimination of intermediaries that is unattainable in other systems. Leveraging blockchain technology and tokenizing water access rights are critical prerequisites to secure clean drinking water for everyone. The combination of tokenization and the decentralized distribution of tokens through the Longhouse Foundation is a way for people to get direct rights to clean drinking water without any self-serving corporations standing between the source and holders of Water150 tokens. This happens after ten years when the full DAO structure is implemented. The only thing between Water150 token holders and the water source will be a foundation governed by statutes that serve everyone involved in the Longhouse ecosystem. With the decentralized voting system through the blockchain, the Longhouse Foundation merely becomes a necessary function, governed by the token owners and the governing statutes.

The management of physical assets is typically handled by some intermediary, risking project “hijack” when selfish motivations become more important than the interest of the whole ecosystem. We believe this is one of the reasons tokenization of physical assets has failed in other decentralized protocols. Longhouse resolves this problem by leaving project management and ownership to a non-profit foundation that serves the people in the ecosystem. The statutes of the Longhouse Foundation are clearly defined and impossible to change in the future.