The John P. McNulty Prize honoring bold leaders using their talents and resources to tackle the world’s most pressing issues is being awarded to Cody Friesen, an associate professor at Arizona State University and founder and CEO of SOURCE Global. The company is employing innovative technology that uses water vapor in the air to produce high-quality drinking water almost anywhere on the planet, even in remote areas.

The first ASU faculty member or alumnus to win the prize, Friesen is striving to realize his vision for ending the potable water scarcity faced by much of the world’s population.

“At least 2.4 billion people on planet earth don’t have clean water to drink, but giving communities worldwide water ownership, access and security is possible, and SOURCE is committed to perfect water for every person, every place,” says Friesen, who teaches materials science and engineering in the School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy, one of the seven schools in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at ASU. He is also a senior global futures scientist at ASU’s Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory.

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