Vocabulary

1- Aquifer: It is defined as a geological formation that is made up of one or more layers of rocks, capable of storing and transferring water. It is located on the ground in the area called “saturated zone”.

2- Digital Asset: Any resource that exists in a digitized form and that someone can own, or that represents content that someone can own and, therefore, has an associated right for its use. Being treated as property, it can be sold, bought, or licensed. For example, graphics files, logos, video or sound files, web pages, electronic documents, cryptocurrencies.

3- BitcoinWater: Cryptocurrency.

4- BitWater: Token or Token.

5- Blockchain: It is a type of distributed record book to maintain a permanent and tamper-proof record of transactional data.

6- Carbon Credits: They are an international mechanism that seeks to reduce polluting emissions to the Environment; It is one of the three mechanisms that were proposed in the Kyoto Protocol, in order to reduce emissions that cause global warming or the greenhouse effect. Conceived as financial tools that seek to create incentives for countries and companies that use less polluting technologies within their processes or do so on a smaller scale than expected.

7- BTCW: Short for BitcoinWater.

8- CoinWater: Chip or Token.

9- Cryptocurrency: A cryptocurrency is a digital asset that uses cryptographic encryption to guarantee its ownership and ensure the integrity of transactions, and control the creation of additional units, that is, prevent someone from making copies as we would, for example, with a photo. These coins do not exist in physical form: they are stored in a digital wallet.

10- Crypto derivative: All those financial instruments whose value is anchored to another asset or basket of assets, which is called the underlying asset, are known as derivatives.

11- Crowdfunding: It is the financing of crowds or collective financing. Investors have the opportunity to know all the details of the entrepreneur's project. On the other hand, entrepreneurs can reach more voices and interact with potential funders who share their cause.

12- Dapps: They are decentralized applications, they are tools or apps that are not managed by companies and where users are directly related without intermediaries between them, generally through a blockchain.

13- Fiat Money: From the Latin “fiat”, which means “let it be done” or “let it be so”. It has that name because it exists by decree, by order of the governing authority. It cannot be exchanged for gold or silver. It doesn't have a backup.

14- Ecosystem: It is the set formed by the living beings that inhabit a certain community.

15- Ethereum: It is a cryptocurrency. In addition, Ethereum works as an infrastructure to build new projects within its blockchain.

16- Exploits: It is a computer program, a piece of software or a script that takes advantage of an error or vulnerability to cause unintended or unexpected behavior in software, hardware, or any electronic device.

17- Electronic signature: It is a set of electronic data that accompany or are associated with an electronic document and whose basic functions are to unequivocally identify the signer and ensure the integrity of the signed document.

18- Water Futures: Water futures are a new financial instrument listed on an official market. It is a financial derivative based on the Nasdaq Veles California Water index, an indicator of the price of water. It is the right to use water. It does not imply the physical delivery of the water (for now).

19- Initial Token Offering (ITO): Initial Token Offering is a form of financing in which companies, mainly startups, collect funds through tokens or cryptocurrencies that they have created themselves. It works similarly to a traditional initial public offering.

20- Liquidity: It is the ability of an entity to obtain cash and thus meet its short-term obligations.

21- Marketplace: The Marketplace refers to a broader concept of online sales. On this platform, different stores can advertise their products, thus offering the customer a range of options.

22- Max Supply: Maximum supply.

23- Meta tag: Meta tags (also called: meta tags) are used when creating pages in HTML or XHTML. These tags can accurately describe the content of a website.

24- NFT (non-fungible token): It is a good that is not substitutable, in addition to being a unit of value that is assigned to a business model.

25- OPENSEA.IO: It is a platform for the purchase and sale of non-fungible tokens.

26- Plot: It is a piece of land, which is part of a larger area of land.

27- Kyoto Protocol: The Kyoto Protocol puts into operation the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change by committing industrialized countries to limit and reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in accordance with agreed individual goals.

28- Status Quo: Latin expression that refers to the state or situation of certain things, such as the economy, social relations, or culture, at a given time.

29- Sublicensable: Effectively, it means that the license received cannot be transferred for consideration or free of charge.

30- Superferolitics: Excessively delicate, fine.

31- Token: It is a unit of value that an organization creates to govern its business model and give more power to its users to interact with its products, while facilitating the distribution and distribution of benefits among all its shareholders.

32- Tokenization: It is the process of removing sensitive data from your business systems by replacing it with an undecipherable token.

33- Wallet: It is a wallet, wallet, or purse with which you can manage digital currencies. These work as software or hardware designed to manage and store the public and private keys of cryptocurrencies.

34- White Paper: It is a manifesto in which everything related to a specific cryptocurrency is explained.

35- Zoonoses: Zoonoses are infectious diseases (for example covid 19) naturally transmissible from vertebrate animals to humans. The close interaction between men and animals, as well as the increase in commercial activity and the movement of people, animals, their
products, and by-products, have led to a greater spread of zoonoses. Furthermore, the spread of these diseases is also driven by indiscriminate deforestation, modernization of agricultural practices, particularly in developing regions vulnerable to habitat destruction, human encroachment, and climate change. The impact of zoonoses not only lies in the damage to public health, but also causes severe economic losses in the region.