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13th Award 2028

Nominations open online until 31 December 2027

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Prizewinners for the 12th Award (2026)

Topic: Transforming the time reversibility of hydraulic waves into a powerful diagnostic framework to monitor water infrastructure health.Team leaders: Mohamed S. Ghidaoui and Silvia Meniconi.
Additional team contributors include: Muhammad Waqar, Saber Nasraoui, and Fedi Zouari (HKUST, China).

Creativity Prize

Topic: Transforming satellite gravimetry into a practical tool for monitoring groundwater depletion and terrestrial freshwater change.
Team leader: James Famiglietti.

Creativity Prize

Topic: Integrating field work and isotope hydrology to advance surface water hydrology and the discovery of new hydrological and ecohydrological processes.

Surface Water Prize

Topic: Using real-world observational data to provide the most detailed empirical picture to date of the state of global groundwater resources.

Groundwater Prize

Alternative Water Resources Prize

Topic: Integrating advanced treatment, micropollutant and transformation-product abatement, microbiological water quality, antimicrobial resistance, and environmental sustainability into holistic frameworks for safe water treatment and reuse.

Water Management and Protection Prize

Topic: Developing a new paradigm for basin-scale integrated ecohydrological research in cold and arid regions.
Team leader: Xin Li.

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