Silicon Valley-based futurology institution Singularity University (SU) has launched the Global Water Impact Challenge to fire up the search for innovative solutions to California’s ongoing drought.
The challenge is open to teams from around the world which must submit proposals by 15 September. At the end of September, three winners and three runners up will be announced. The latter will have the opportunity to pitch their solutions to the SU community, while the winners will be given the opportunity to become entrepreneurs-in-residence at SU’s Startup Lab.
Lieutenant governor of California Gavin Newsom, who is also promoting the challenge, said: “California produces almost half of all the fruits, nuts and vegetables grown in the United States therefore the impact of our solutions are both local, national, and global. In the spirit of the Orteig Prize of 1919, my goal in working with Singularity University is to activate the incredible talent and ingenuity of Californians and the SU global community to solve twenty-first century challenges with twenty-first century solutions.”
