Awards & Winners

Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Water

The Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Water is a Saudi Arabian scientific prize, established on 21 October 2002 by Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz Al Saud. The Prize has its headquarters at the Prince Sultan Research Center for Environment, Water and Desert at King Saud University. It is a bi-annual international scientific award that accepts nominations from all over the world. For its third round the Prize received 198 nominations from 53 countries, with the Creativity Prize, worth more than a quarter of a million dollars, receiving 73 of those nominations.

Check all the Awards, Winners and Nominations for the Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Water since 2004.

Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Water

2012

Check all the winners of 2012 Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Water.
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Kevin E. Trenberth, Aiguo Dai
(For ground-breaking work that provides a powerful estimate of the effects of climate change on the global hydrological cycle, with a clear explanation of the global water budget.)
Charles Franklin Harvey, Abu Borhan Mohammad Badruzzaman
(For developing a complete diagnostic and conceptual model for understanding and preventing the arsenic contamination of groundwater.)
Mohamed Khayet Souhaimi
(For his work in pioneering and promoting membrane distillation for water recovery using alternative renewable energy sources.)
Damià Barceló
(For his work at the leading edge of water science in understanding the effect of pharmaceuticals in the water environment, developing new methods for future risk assessment and management of emerging contaminants, and the investigation of water quality in intensively-used basins.)
Ashok Gadgil, Susan Amrose Addy, Robert Kostecki, Joyashree Roy, Case van Genuchten
(For developing an innovative and effective method of treating the arsenic contamination of groundwater using electrocoagulation.)