Stockholm Water Prize
2022: Wilfried Brutsaert, for his groundbreaking work to quantify environmental evaporation, helping to make accurate predictions of the impact that climate change has on local rainfall patterns and water sources.
[3] 2019: Jackie King, Extraordinary Professor at the Institute for Water Studies, University of the Western Cape, South Africa, won the award for her contributions to global river management.
Their research has demonstrated the possibilities to remove harmful contaminants from water, cut wastewater treatment costs, reduce energy consumption, and even recover chemicals and nutrients for recycling.
[6] 2016: Joan Rose, Professor at Michigan State University, USA, for “The nexus of water-related microbiology, water quality and public health is rife with uncertainty – in both theory and practice.
The world is blessed with few individuals who can tackle the increasing and changing challenges to clean water and health, starting from state-of-the-art science through dedicated and original research, then moving to professional dissemination, effective lobbying of the legislative arena, influencing practitioners, and raising the general awareness.
Rajendra Singh’s life work has been in building social capacity to solve local water problems through participatory action, empowerment of women, linking indigenous know-how with modern scientific and technical approaches and upending traditional patterns of development, resource use, and social norms.” 2014: John Briscoe, Founder and Director of University-Wide Harvard Water Quality Initiative, and for 20 years with the World Bank, for "unparalleled contributions to global and local management of wa ter - contributions covering vast thematic, geographic, and institutional environments-that have improved the lives and livelihoods of millions of people worldwide.” For his "unparalleled contributions to global and local management of water - contributions covering vast thematic, geographic, and institutional environments-that have improved the lives and livelihoods of millions of people worldwide.” 2013: Peter Morgan, Director of Aquamor, a not-for-profit in Zimbabwe for "his work to protect the health and lives of millions of people through improved sanitation and water technologies.
Through her research on its physiology, ecology, and metabolism, Dr Colwell advanced the fields of mathematics, genetics and remote sensing technology and not only as they relate to these bacteria but to the prevention other diseases in many developing countries."
His accomplishments span the fields of sanitation technology, social enterprise, and healthcare education for millions of people in his native country, serving as a model for NGO agencies and public health initiatives around the world.
2001: Takashi Asano, University of California at Davis, United States For his outstanding contributions to efficient use of water in the domain of wastewater reclamation, recycling and reuse through theoretical developments, practical research and worldwide adaptation and promotion.
1998: Gedeon Dagan, Tel Aviv University, Israel For having established the basis of a new field within geohydrology where contaminant spreading in the subsurface environment is determined in such a way that it accounts for heterogeneity and for biochemical processes.
1993: Madhav Atmaram Chitale, International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage, India For his achievements in the fields of water conservation and public education programs in Southeast Asia.
