According to CNBC, one company that creates these types of panels is Source Global, and it plans to bring the water generated by those hydropanels in areas where it's most needed.

Cody Friesen, the CEO of the company, created these panels back in 2014 at Arizona State University, and one year later he founded the startup Source Global.

The cost for manufacturing one of these hydropanels is around 2.000 dollars.

Friesen said that "we take sunlight and air and we can produce perfect drinking water essentially anywhere on the planet... we take water that has historically been probably humanity’s greatest challenge and turn it into a renewable resource that is perfect essentially everywhere."

The way hydropanels work is that they store water vapors from the air and then, using the power of the sun, turns them into liquid water, which is collected in tank inside the panel.

Source Global was able to install about 40 of these hydropanels in Kenya by 2018 in order to ease the work of the Samburu Girls Foundation when it comes to finding drinkable water.

“We can now make perfect water, at your home, at your school, in your community in a way that is really bringing it into the 21st century”, Friesen added.

Now, the company has 450 projects involving its panels, which are deployed over 52 countries.

The team behind this project also raised 150 million dollars from investors, most notable ones being Bill Gates, BlackRock and Duke Energy.

There are many places around the globe that could make use of this new technology, as just in India there are around 800.000 villages that struggle with finding water.

The World Health Organization is afraid that, by the half of this decade, "half the world's population will be in water stressed areas."

There is opportunity within countries that don't suffer from water shortages, as well, says the CEO, since if there are issues within the public water system, people can resort to using hydropanels to get their needed water supply.