A GLOBAL INITIATIVE TO ADDRESS WATER SCARCITY

Water is essential to all life on Earth, but due to many trends, including population growth, increased urbanization, and climate change, scarcity of fresh water is becoming more pronounced around the world. Seawater desalination offers the opportunity to turn the Earth’s oceans into a near-limitless resource.

Existing solutions to address water scarcity, including current desalination technologies, are nearing the limit of their potential efficiency, are unavailable to many communities due to cost and other factors, and can have negative impacts on the environment. New breakthroughs are needed to address rising water scarcity in more efficient, scalable, accessible and sustainable ways.

XPRIZE is designing a competition that incentivizes the development of innovative solutions for seawater desalination to address the challenge of increasing global water scarcity.