Source Global

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Making drinking water an unlimited resource with SOURCE, a set of panels that make water from air.

Cody Friesen

CEO at Source Global

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Employees 101–200

Headquarters Scottsdale, Arizona, United States

SOURCE's technology provides safe, clean drinking water for industrial, commercial, residential and community applications. Their groundbreaking SOURCE® Hydropanel taps into the endless supply of solar energy and moisture in the air, producing drinking water entirely off-grid in a self-contained system. This revolutionary technology will do for drinking water what solar panels have done for electricity, making water a renewable resource. SOURCE® Hydropanels are currently at work in more than 40 countries across the world.

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Currently Operating in 44 Regions

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Press Mentions

May 23, 2021

'Water from the heavens': South Carolina pastor's crusade for clean drinking water

In the 20 years since she moved to Florence, South Carolina, Carolyn McMillan said she has shunned consuming water from her faucet at home.

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April 14, 2021

Allensworth finds a ‘Source’ for clean water

Rural, disadvantaged community may have found a solution to its century-old water quality issue by tapping the sky

Read on The Sun-Gazette Newspaper »

July 22, 2020

This tech is bringing water to Navajo Nation by pulling it out of the air

Zero Mass Water’s Source hydropanels use sunlight to absorb water vapor from the air. In the Navajo Nation, where running water is scarce and COVID-19 is surging, they’re providing a lifeline.

Read on Fast Company »

January 25, 2023

First look: Clean water for Texas colonias

A renewable tech pilot program is bringing drinking water to border colonias, unincorporated, low-income communities with limited resource along the US and Mexico border.

Read on Axios »

January 13, 2023

Startup Fridays S4 Ep1: 'I Wish For India, Many Unreasonable Entrepreneurs' — Cody Friesen - Forbes India

In today's episode, Cody Friesen, founder and CEO of SOURCE Global, talks about his dream of putting to bed one of humanity's biggest and most urgent problems—the lack of access to clean drinking...

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March 28, 2022

Bill Gates and Blackrock are backing the start-up behind hydropanels that make water out of thin air

Source Global is a climate startup that uses hydropanels to produce clean water out of the air. It's backed by Bill Gates' Breakthrough Energy Ventures.

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