Astro Teller says clean-water breakthroughs need costs near 1¢ per litre to be transformative

What was said

""If you can make clean water, if you could pull it from the atmosphere, if you could desal for a tenth the price, you have to be able to get to like a penny a liter all-in cost for it to really change the world. But we have almost 3 billion people in the world who are water stressed, who don't have clean water to drink.""

Astro Teller says X has repeatedly worked on clean-water efforts and that, in his view, solutions such as desalination or pulling water from the atmosphere need to reach “like a penny a litre” in all-in cost to “really change the world”. He also asserts that “almost 3 billion” people are water-stressed and predicts water stress will worsen with climate change, potentially contributing to “hundreds of millions” of climate refugees.