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

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Podcast: [A Climate Change with Matt Matern](https://stenobird.com/podcast/a-climate-change-with-matt-matern-7134409)
Published: 2026-06-11T17:28:26+00:00
Episode link: https://aclimatechange.podbean.com/e/he-left-spacex-after-13-years-to-solve-the-water-crisis-with-jonathan-criss/
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Duration seconds: 2246

## Resource

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.

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