How the aqueducts of our generation began.

For twenty-five years, Y.A. Maof has done environmental work the hard way: taking burdens nobody wanted — construction waste in Israel, sargassum on Caribbean coasts — and turning them into working solutions at scale. The Caribbean taught us the lesson that shaped everything since: a solution that arrives from outside does not take root. It has to be built with the community that lives with the problem.

The founding environmental work brought Y.A. Maof into cooperation with Scholas Occurrentes, the organization created by Pope Francis. In Madrid in 2021, the relationship developed into the Educational Water Pact Forum — and a shared aspiration:

Then the work became personal. Yaeli Ach did not survive her illness. What she left was not a memory to preserve, but an instruction to follow: that the best thing a person can do in this world is good for someone else. From it came Better Tomorrow — remembrance that keeps working. Following Pope Francis’ passing, the initiative set out to dedicate the proposed restoration of the aqueduct to his legacy. Professional assessment and cost evaluation have since been completed with the Israel Antiquities Authority, and implementation planning is underway.

From these beginnings grew a wider idea: aqueducts for our own generation, carrying solutions in water, energy, food and ecosystems to the places that need them. The Caesarea aqueduct remains our flagship heritage initiative, and the AqueductGo HQ & WEFE Center and a planned Scholas Center at Caesarea are still being developed. We cannot build this alone.

Today, that story is taking its next steps in Bali and across Latin America. Conversations with communities, educators, institutions, and potential implementation partners are helping shape where AqueductGo can contribute. The purpose remains the same: to connect real challenges with suitable solutions and the people who can help put them to work.