In 2018, EWB-UH was approached by the EWB Central Houston Professional Chapter for help. The Houston Professional Chapter had been engineering and building rainwater collection systems throughout Loreto, Peru, starting in 2016. There was a problem. The communities where the collection system had been and was planning to be built in were located in the Amazon Rainforest. This meant that the rainwater collection system was also collecting the debris that the rain carried with it. These types of debris include leafs, dirt, and insects. The EWB Houston Professional Chapter approached EWB-UH in order to help them develop a solution to this problem.