Voltea Joins the XPRIZE Water Scarcity Competition
- Dallas, TX
- October 17, 2025
- Authored by Danielle Francisco
We are proud to share that Voltea’s capacitive deionization technology has been included in the Global Water Technologies Qualified Testing system for the XPRIZE Water Scarcity competition. Global Water Technologies (OTC: GWTR), led by CEO Erik Hromadka, has been selected as one of only 93 teams advancing to the next stage of the $119 million global prize competition. Chosen from a pool of 674 teams representing 86 countries, this effort showcases system-level innovation aimed at solving one of humanity’s most urgent challenges — sustainable access to water. Voltea, under the leadership of CEO Todd Marron, is honored to contribute core technology that will help the team advance seawater desalination systems designed to improve water recovery, energy efficiency, and brine management. The announcement was made at WEFTEC 2025 in Chicago, North America’s largest annual gathering of water professionals.
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About Voltea
Voltea has been delivering electro-desalination water treatment equipment to institutional, commercial and industrial customers for more than 15 years. Voltea’s CapDI© systems remove dissolved salts from water using electricity with less environmental cost than any other available technology. Voltea was named Breakthrough Water Technology Company of the Year at the 2018 Global Water Summit in Paris. Also, the company was recognized as one of the 21 Technology Pioneers 2013 at the World Economic Forum, listed in the 2011 Global Cleantech 100 and won the best new technology award at the 2010 Global Water Summit.
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