{"id":238333,"date":"2026-06-04T02:50:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T07:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/providing-low-cost-clean-water-for-a-billion-people"},"modified":"2026-06-04T02:50:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T07:50:12","slug":"providing-low-cost-clean-water-for-a-billion-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/providing-low-cost-clean-water-for-a-billion-people","title":{"rendered":"Providing Low-cost Clean Water for a Billion People"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/niQ0kkgPxJk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This summer I attended <a href=\"http:\/\/singularityu.org\" target=\"_blank\">Singularity University<\/a>\u2019s graduate studies program. Alongside 79 extraordinary entrepreneurs and scientists from around the globe, I had the opportunity to learn from some of the best minds in the world about a variety of rapidly advancing areas of technology. The context of these discussions was how we might use these technologies to implement solutions capable of affecting the lives of more than a <a href=\"http:\/\/singularityu.org\/tag\/grand-challenges\/\" target=\"_blank\">billion people<\/a> over the next decade.<\/p>\n<p><strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/briefing.singularityu.org\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Diamandis\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/providing-low-cost-clean-water-for-a-billion-people4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"152\" height=\"83\" ><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/briefing.singularityu.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Singularity University Limited Briefing: a Webinar Monday Sept. 13<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Learn about the projects Singularity University (SU) students developed during its 2010 Graduate Studies Program, with SU Co-Founder and Chancellor Ray Kurzweil, SU Co-Founder &amp; Chairman Peter Diamandis, and SU faculty head Dan Barry, three-time NASA astronaut.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This summer I attended Singularity University\u2019s graduate studies program. Alongside 79 extraordinary entrepreneurs and scientists from around the globe, I had the opportunity to learn from some of the best minds in the world about a variety of rapidly advancing areas of technology. The context of these discussions was how we might use these technologies [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2020,2018,64,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-peter-diamandis","category-ray-kurzweil","category-singularity","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}