XPrize
XPRIZE Water Scarcity is a $119 million, 5-year prize designed to increase widespread access to clean water by creating reliable, sustainable, and affordable seawater desalination systems. Competing teams will develop new desalination technologies to unlock access to Earth's ocean water year round, helping drive a world where clean water is equitably and sustainably abundant, and enabling people and the environment to prosper. This multi-track competition centers around a core track to rethink the desalination system; the winning team will reliably and most sustainably generate one million liters of potable water per day (1,000 m3/d) from seawater at the lowest cost, over the course of 1 year.