2010 Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Water

Marek Zreda, Darin Desilets, Ignacio Rodriguez-Iturbe, Andrea Rinaldo

(For their groundbreaking work with the Cosmic Ray Probe, a technology which uses cosmic-ray neutrons to measure soil moisture content and snow pack thickness over an area of tens of hectares \u2014 passively, non-invasively and economically.)

Bart Van der Bruggen

(For his work in the use of nanofiltration membrane technology for industrial water recycling.)

Soroosh Sorooshian

(For his development and refinement of the PERSIANN model to estimate precipitation from satellite remotely sensed data.)