XPRIZE Water Scarcity — Active Phase
Supports water-solvers advancing desalination systems and infrastructure for severe scarcity conditions.
XPRIZE Water Scarcity is a $119 million prize competition launched March 1, 2024, sponsored by the Mohamed bin Zayed Water Initiative, to advance desalination technology capable of addressing global water scarcity. The competition runs through 2028 across two parallel tracks. Track A ($108 million total purse) challenges teams to generate at least one million liters of potable water per day from s…
Track A ($108M): generate ≥1M litres/day of potable water from seawater at lowest cost over one year. Track B ($10.9M): novel desalination material/method treating seawater to potable quality with 10+ year operational lifetime.
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