A new cell phone app that could help Fresnans track their water consumption is headed toward development. The app is the brainchild of a group of five sixth graders.
Calling themselves the ‘fab five’, the boys came up with and pitched the idea of an app that taps into data collected by city water meters and supplies daily updates on a person’s water use.
Due in part to a 25-thousand dollar donation from AT&T, the team has now raised the nearly 60-thousand dollars needed to hire a local technology company to code the app.
One of the group, 11-year old Jeffrey Forbes, says they simply wanted to come up with a way to help residents save water during the drought.
“I really didn’t think it was going to go this far in the beginning. It could help if we actually got it implemented. But we never thought anybody would notice it or help out with it,” Forbes said.
In addition to daily updates, the boys say the app will provide game like incentives to save water and alerts on abnormal water use.
