{"id":21545,"date":"2018-10-21T17:26:16","date_gmt":"2018-10-21T17:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/SkywaterSkysource-Alliance-wins-challenge-to-extract-2-kl-of-water-from-the-atmosphere-per-day-for-no-more-than-2c"},"modified":"2018-10-21T17:26:16","modified_gmt":"2018-10-21T17:26:16","slug":"skywaterskysource-alliance-wins-challenge-to-extract-2-kl-of-water-from-the-atmosphere-per-day-for-no-more-than-2c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/2018\/10\/21\/skywaterskysource-alliance-wins-challenge-to-extract-2-kl-of-water-from-the-atmosphere-per-day-for-no-more-than-2c\/","title":{"rendered":"Skywater\/Skysource Alliance wins challenge to extract 2 kl of water from the atmosphere per day for no more than 2c&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"        \n<p><strong>Originally shared by Danie van der Merwe<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Skywater\/Skysource Alliance wins challenge to extract 2 kl of water from the atmosphere per day for no more than 2c per liter using 100% renewable energy<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today, 790 million people \u2014 11 percent of the world&#8217;s population \u2014 live without access to clean water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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&#8217;t privileged enough to have it now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Skeptics told the competition organizers that it was impossible. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nearly 100 submissions later, and XPrize found precisely what they were looking for \u2014 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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This weekend, the organization announced the winners of the $1.5 million grand prize.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>See <a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/article\/xprize-water-competition-winner\">https:\/\/mashable.com\/article\/xprize-water-competition-winner<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>#water #drought<\/p>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/article\/xprize-water-competition-winner\" class=\"embedly-card\" data-card-recommend=\"0\" data-card-width=\"100%\">https:\/\/mashable.com\/article\/xprize-water-competition-winner<\/a><\/p>\n      ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>        Skywater\/Skysource Alliance wins challenge to extract 2 kl of water from the atmosphere per day for no more than 2c&#8230;<br \/>\n       <a href=\"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/2018\/10\/21\/skywaterskysource-alliance-wins-challenge-to-extract-2-kl-of-water-from-the-atmosphere-per-day-for-no-more-than-2c\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[93],"tags":[146,94,145],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21545"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}