XPRIZE Water Scarcity – Track B – Desalination: Novel Materials and Methods

The XPRIZE Foundation is promoting a competition on innovative desalination technologies named XPRIZE Water Scarcity – Track B – Desalination: Novel Materials and Methods.

XPRIZE Water Scarcity is a 5-year global competition set to drive a step change in desalination technologies, reimagining systems, methods, and materials. In Track B – Desalination: Novel Materials and Methods, the winning team wil demonstrate a novel material and/or method for salt-water separation that can sustainably and cost-effectively treat seawater to potable water quality. This track welcomes a broad range of innovations, including advanced pressure-driven membranes and emerging materials and/or methods beyond traditional pressure-driven membranes for salt-water separation, with solutions delivering an operational lifetime of 10 years or more. Innovations must either serve as a direct replacement of or advance the performance of seawater reverse osmosis (SWRO) membranes, ensuring scalability, energy efficiency, and durability. Teams must describe how their innovation wil integrate into existing SWRO desalination plants.

Key Dates

Team Registration Deadline: 31st May

Qualifying Submission Deadline: 30th June

Click on the following link to access the competition guidelines or visit the website https://www.xprize.org/prizes/water/guidelines