Wazoku

The Global Prize Innovation in Desalination (GPID) has awarded more than SAR 10M in prize funding per year over a three-year period in the 2024 edition of its annual fund, recognising transformative solutions to global water scarcity. Through a series of crowdsourcing challenges, GPID sought groundbreaking ideas to improve water availability, affordability, and accessibility worldwide. Entrepreneurs, start-ups, research bodies, scientists, accelerators, organisations, and experts submitted a total of 540 ideas, proof-of-concepts, and mature proposals around desalination. Overall, there were entries from 56 different countries and 80 universities or research institutions ...