This Machine Could End America's Water Shortages | Eden

Lake Mead, the gauge of how bad America’s water crisis has become, just hit its lowest level since the day the Hoover Dam was built.

Hunter Manz grew up on that lake. While most people turn on a tap and never think twice about where their water comes from, Hunter spent his teens building the tech to make sure everyone has enough.

He built a 5,000-pound machine that bolts onto a desalination plant and pulls twice the drinking water from the same amount of seawater.

I recently caught up with Hunter to talk about where his company, Eden Technologies, is deploying first: the Permian Basin, where oil producers pay billions a year to bury saltwater they could be selling:

Click the image to watch my interview with Hunter Manz.

In today’s podcast, you’ll hear:

• Why money went to software while our infrastructure rotted (0:51)

• The $5 billion of lithium we throw away every year (14:57)

• How Eden’s tech exemplifies “The Great Handoff” (21:01)

• Why water has become a national security risk (29:48)

• The second-order winners nobody's pricing in (39:54)

Please click here to watch my conversation with Hunter now. 

—Stephen McBride

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Stephen McBride is a co-founder of the Rational Optimist Society.

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