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244. He Left SpaceX After 13 Years to Solve the Water Crisis with Jonathan Criss

Podcast: A Climate Change with Matt Matern
Published: Jun 11, 2026
Duration seconds: 2246
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Summary

Matt Matern speaks with Jonathan Criss, CEO and co-founder of Vital Lyfe, about portable desalination and rethinking the global water crisis. Drawing on 13 years at SpaceX, Criss explains why clean water is an infrastructure problem, not a scarcity one - and how decentralized technology could change that.