STOCKHOLM WATER PRIZE

STOCKHOLM WATER PRIZE

The Stockholm Water Prize is a prestigious award that recognises outstanding achievements in water related activities. It is presented annually since 1991. The Stockholm Water Prize Laureate is announced each 22 March at the UN World Day for Water and honoured each August during the World Water Week in Stockholm at a Royal Prize Ceremony and Banquet in the Stockholm City Hall.

At the ceremony, the Laureate receives the prize from H.M. King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden, who is the patron of the Stockholm Water Prize. The prize, created and financed by the Stockholm Water Foundation and administered by the Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI), includes a 150,000 USD award and an Orrefors crystal sculpture.

List of Winner:

2012:   International Water Management Institute, Sri Lanka

2011:   Stephen R. Carpenter, United States

2010:   Professor Rita R. Colwell, United States

2009:   Dr. Bindeshwar Pathak, founder of Sulabh International

2008: Professor John Anthony Allan, King’s College London and the School of Oriental and African Studies

2007:   Professor Perry L. McCarty, Stanford University, United States

2006:   Professor Asit K. Biswas, The Third World Center for Water Management

2005:   Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) under the directorship of Ms. Sunita Narain, New Delhi, India

2004:   Professor Sven Erik Jørgensen, Danish University of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Copenhagen, Denmark and Professor William J. Mitsch, Olentangy River Wetland Research Park at The Ohio State University, United States

2003:   Professor Peter A. Wilderer, Technical University of Munich, Germany

2002:   Professor Ignacio Rodríguez-Iturbe, Princeton University, United States

2001:   Professor Takashi Asano, University of California at Davis, United States

2000:   Professor Kader Asmal, Ministry of Education, South Africa

1999:   Professor Werner Stumm, Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Switzerland and James J. Morgan, California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, United States

1998:   Professor Gedeon Dagan, Tel Aviv University, Israel

1997:   Professor Peter S. Eagleson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States

1996:   Professor Jörg Imberger, University of Western Australia

1995:   Water Aid, under the leadership of Jon Lane, Great Britain

1994:   Dr. Takeshi Kubo, Research Institute of Wastewater Management, Japan

1993:   Dr. Madhav Atmaram Chitale, International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage, India

1992:   Department of Environmental Engineering at the Technical University of Denmark, under the leadership of Professor Poul Harremoës'

1991:   Professor David W. Schindler, University of Alberta, Canada