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Monday, 22 October 2018

How a team of innovators overcame the odds to create water from thin air

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Today, 790 million people — 11 percent of the world's population — live without access to clean water.

Two years ago, XPrize, an international nonprofit organization, announced a global competition enticing innovators to find a sustainable and affordable way to bring potable water to those who aren't privileged enough to have it now.

Skeptics told the competition organizers that it was impossible. 

Nearly 100 submissions later, and XPrize found precisely what they were looking for — entrepreneurs who could design a minimalistic device that could reliably extract 2,000 liters of water from the atmosphere per day for no more than two cents per liter all using 100 percent renewable energy.  Read more...

More about Environment, Water, Climate Change, Xprize, and Water Crisis

from Mashable https://mashable.com/article/xprize-water-competition-winner/
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