We originally started work on this project two years ago for an organization called CADENA, which challenged middle schoolers to create solutions to different problems which occur during a natural disaster. Project ZROM started out under the name NEMO, and had a slightly different objective; to detect people in a flooded building and then send a signal to alert a rescue team. As we began to design our prototype, we realized that the technology that actually is required to accomplish this feat was much too expensive and the cheaper alternatives did not accomplish the same goal. So, this year, for CIJE, we decided to come back to this project. We wanted to first try to figure out if there was a way to be able to accomplish the same goal but to no avail. Our next step was to continue research into flood damage prevention. We came up with the idea of water detection in buildings, a way of prevention rather than intervention.