SOURCE Global: Cody Friesen

Cody Friesen

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Updated: May 8th, 2023

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Cody Friesen is the founder of SOURCE Global, a renewable drinking water company. 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 what solar panels have done for drinking water for electricity, making water a renewable resource.

The mission behind starting the company was to make clean drinking water accessible to everyone, everywhere. Cody built SOURCE by developing renewable technologies to improve the lives of people and communities worldwide directly.

Cody is an entrepreneur and business leader enthusiastic about employing modern technology to address humanity’s most severe and critical issues. He invented a rechargeable metal-air battery and solar-driven hydro panels that generate water from the air. Friesen received the Lemelson-MIT Prize in 2019 for his dedication to invention and mentorship.

SOURCE Hydropanels are currently at work in more than 40 countries worldwide. This Arizona-based company already has a presence in over 50 countries and has raised $270 million to date.