Creativity Prize (10th Award, 2022) for developing advanced oxidation technologies and nanotechnologies for the removal and monitoring of emerging contaminants.
Groundwater Prize (10th Award, 2022) for pioneering research on toxic Dense Non-Aqueous Phase Liquids (DNAPLs’) in groundwater.
Creativity Prize (5th Award, 2012) for developing an innovative and effective method of treating the arsenic contamination of groundwater using electrocoagulation.
Alternative Water Resources Prize (2nd Award, 2006) for using membrane separation technology coupled with chemical and physical pre-treatment for a cost-effective method to treat palm oil effluent (POME) with zero discharge.
Creativity Prize (10th Award, 2022) for developing advanced oxidation technologies and nanotechnologies for the removal and monitoring of emerging contaminants.
Creativity Prize (10th Award, 2022) for developing environmentally friendly “water positive” nanoscale materials to achieve affordable, sustainable and rapid removal of arsenic from drinking water.
Water Management & Protection Prize (10th Award, 2022) for employing CubeSat constellations in the sustainable management and security of linked water-food systems.
Groundwater Prize (5th Award, 2012) for developing a complete diagnostic and conceptual model for understanding and preventing the arsenic contamination of groundwater.
Surface Water Prize (10th Award, 2022) for developing effective models to understand, evaluate and predict evapotranspiration and water-use efficiency in various environments under climate change conditions.
Water Management & Protection Prize (5th Award, 2012) for 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.
Creativity Prize (8th Award, 2018) for developing the new field of Sociohydrology, a ground-breaking paradigm for water management and a new validated approach for studying the dynamic interactions and bi-directional feedbacks between water systems and people.
Water Management & Protection Prize (8th Award, 2018) for developing and applying a new risk-based framework to assess water security and plan water supply infrastructure in times of climate change.
Groundwater Prize (1st Award, 2004) for the development of efficient design and management criteria for the artificial recharge of groundwater, including the Bauwer and Rice slug test for measuring hydraulic conductivities of aquifers and improved infiltrometer procedures.
Creativity Prize (6th Award, 2014) for the discovery that standard geodetic GPS instruments are sensitive to hydrological influences and the subsequent development of a new, unexpected, and cost-effective technique, GPS Interferometric Reflectometry (GPS-IR), to measure soil moisture, snow depth, and vegetation water content.
Surface Water Prize (8th Award, 2018) for developing, demonstrating, and validating a new theory that can generate unprecedented estimates of evaporation from the natural landscape.
Dr. Huili Chen (Loughborough University, UK)
Surface Water Prize (11th Award, 2024)
for developing innovative, open-source, multi-GPU hydrodynamic models to support real-time flood forecasting at high temporal-spatial resolutions.
Creativity Prize (7th Award, 2016) for using chlorophyll information from satellite data to predict cholera outbreaks at least three to six months in advance.
Dr. Paolo D’Odorico (University of California Berkley, USA)
Creativity Prize (11th Award, 2024)
for novel analyses of the water-energy-food nexus describing how numerous complex factors interact, providing for better freshwater stewardship in a changing, globalised world.
Surface Water Prize (5th Award, 2012) 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.
Creativity Prize (4th Award, 2010) for 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 — passively, non-invasively and economically.
Creativity Prize (10th Award, 2022) for developing advanced oxidation technologies and nanotechnologies for the removal and monitoring of emerging contaminants.
Dr. Erhu Du (Hohai University, Nanjing, China)
Groundwater Prize (11th Award, 2024)
for powerful management tools to understand groundwater processes in ecohydrologic systems under diverse hydrological and climatic conditions, considering environmental and socioeconomic factors at local and national scales.
Alternative Water Resources Prize (1st Award, 2004) for research in economical technologies in sea water desalination, exploring both conventional and non-conventional desalination processes that focus on performance enhancement, energy conservation, and cost reduction.
Creativity Prize (9th Award, 2020) for developing novel nano-materials in hierarchal and micrometric monoliths to achieve a nano-filtration/capture/detection process that quantitatively detects and selectively removes a wide range of water contaminants in a single step.
Alternative Water Resources Prize (10th Award, 2022) for significant advances in nanostructured materials for next-generation membranes and water purification technologies, with a particular focus on implementation.
Alternative Water Resources Prize (1st Award, 2004) for research in economical technologies in sea water desalination, exploring both conventional and non-conventional desalination processes that focus on performance enhancement, energy conservation, and cost reduction.
Alternative Water Resources Prize (6th Award, 2014) his development of a novel water detoxification technology by taking advantage of solar light and advanced titania photocatalysts combined with ceramic and composite membranes.
Alternative Water Resources Prize (7th Award, 2016) for developing novel hollow fibre membranes that combine forward osmosis with a reverse osmosis (RO)-like inner selective layer and a novel and previously undiscovered positively charged nanofiltration (NF)-like outer selective layer, which effectively reduces the effects of scaling and flux losses.
Creativity Prize (5th Award, 2012) for developing an innovative and effective method of treating the arsenic contamination of groundwater using electrocoagulation.
Creativity Prize (10th Award, 2022) for developing advanced oxidation technologies and nanotechnologies for the removal and monitoring of emerging contaminants.
Creativity Prize (8th Award, 2018) for developing novel graphene oxide membranes that promise to enable energy-efficient and high-volume water filtration and desalination.
Water Management & Protection Prize (3rd Award, 2008) for work at the forefront of integrating physical and social science into a decision support system for enhanced water planning.
Groundwater Prize (9th Award, 2020) for solving the inverse problem in hydrogeology.
Water Management & Protection Prize (8th Award, 2018) for developing and applying a new risk-based framework to assess water security and plan water supply infrastructure in times of climate change.
Groundwater Prize (5th Award, 2012) for developing a complete diagnostic and conceptual model for understanding and preventing the arsenic contamination of groundwater.
Dr. Zhiguo He (Zhejiang University, China)
Creativity Prize (11th Award, 2024)
for developing working, versatile soft robots with unprecedented maneuverability that have the capacity for numerous underwater research and monitoring applications.
Water Management & Protection Prize (10th Award, 2022) for employing CubeSat constellations in the sustainable management and security of linked water-food systems.
Creativity Prize (9th Award, 2020) for developing adsorbents, coagulants and membrane materials from sustainable, biomass-sourced nanocellulose fibres along with numerous practical applications that promise to provide effective water purification for off-grid communities of the developing world.
Creativity Prize (10th Award, 2022) for developing advanced oxidation technologies and nanotechnologies for the removal and monitoring of emerging contaminants.
Dr. Ching-Hua Huang (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
Alternative Water Resources Prize (11th Award, 2024)
for the effective removal of antibiotics and pharmaceuticals from wastewater through advanced oxidative processes by activated ferrate, which work at enhanced efficiency in water containing natural organic matter.
Groundwater Prize (7th Award, 2016) for improving the fundamental understanding of fluid flow and chemical transport in porous media through innovative multi-scale experimentation and modelling, leading to the reliable prediction of the long‐term fate of pollutants in groundwater systems.
Creativity Prize (7th Award, 2016) for using chlorophyll information from satellite data to predict cholera outbreaks at least three to six months in advance.
Dr. Pengcheng Jiao (Zhejiang University, China)
Creativity Prize (11th Award, 2024)
for developing working, versatile soft robots with unprecedented maneuverability that have the capacity for numerous underwater research and monitoring applications.
Dr. Chetan Jinadatha (Texas A&M University, USA)
Alternative Water Resources Prize (11th Award, 2024)
for the effective removal of antibiotics and pharmaceuticals from wastewater through advanced oxidative processes by activated ferrate, which work at enhanced efficiency in water containing natural organic matter.
Alternative Water Resources Prize (5th Award, 2012) for his work in pioneering and promoting membrane distillation for water recovery using alternative renewable energy sources.
Groundwater Prize (3rd Award, 2008) For developing a new approach to using remote sensing for groundwater modelling.
Creativity Prize (5th Award, 2012) for developing an innovative and effective method of treating the arsenic contamination of groundwater using electrocoagulation.
Creativity Prize (10th Award, 2022) for developing environmentally friendly “water positive” nanoscale materials to achieve affordable, sustainable and rapid removal of arsenic from drinking water.
Surface Water Prize (9th Award, 2020) for advancing our understanding of the relationship between flood risk, river flow, and climate change.
Groundwater Prize (2nd Award, 2006) for the novel application of GIS in the characterisation of seawater intrusion and the development of optimal models for sustainable water management in coastal aquifers.
Creativity Prize (6th Award, 2014) for the discovery that standard geodetic GPS instruments are sensitive to hydrological influences and the subsequent development of a new, unexpected, and cost-effective technique, GPS Interferometric Reflectometry (GPS-IR), to measure soil moisture, snow depth, and vegetation water content.
Dr. Joseph Hun-wei Lee (Macau University of Science and Technology, China)
Water Management & Protection Prize (11th Award, 2024)
for developing unique and highly effective hydro-environmental modelling systems for the sustainable water management of smart cities.
Dr. Qiuhua Liang (Loughborough University, UK)
Surface Water Prize (11th Award, 2024)
for developing innovative, open-source, multi-GPU hydrodynamic models to support real-time flood forecasting at high temporal-spatial resolutions.
Water Management & Protection Prize (7th Award, 2016) for the development and implementation of systems tools that provide an effective, dynamic, and successful framework to address practical water resources management problems worldwide.
Water Management & Protection Prize (9th Award, 2020) for developing the CALVIN water supply optimization model, a tool for the integrated analysis of regional water supply systems that couples traditional water supply criteria with economic considerations.
Water Management & Protection Prize (3rd Award, 2008) for research that extends an established chemical engineering technique (pinch analysis) to water demand management.
Surface Water Prize (6th Award, 2014) for comprehensive work in surface water hydrology and water resources engineering, culminating in three leading and innovative textbooks in the field.
Water Management & Protection Prize (10th Award, 2022) for employing CubeSat constellations in the sustainable management and security of linked water-food systems.
Dr. Xiaodong Ming (Loughborough University, UK)
Surface Water Prize (11th Award, 2024)
for developing innovative, open-source, multi-GPU hydrodynamic models to support real-time flood forecasting at high temporal-spatial resolutions.
Alternative Water Resources Prize (3rd Award, 2008) for the development of advanced models for the fundamental characterization of nanofiltration to enhance its use in water desalination.
Creativity Prize (10th Award, 2022) for developing environmentally friendly “water positive” nanoscale materials to achieve affordable, sustainable and rapid removal of arsenic from drinking water.
Creativity Prize (8th Award, 2018) for developing novel graphene oxide membranes that promise to enable energy-efficient and high-volume water filtration and desalination.
Alternative Water Resources Prize (10th Award, 2022) for significant advances in nanostructured materials for next-generation membranes and water purification technologies, with a particular focus on implementation.
Surface Water Prize (7th Award, 2016) for contributing to our understanding of meandering rivers, the shapes they take, and how they change themselves and their floodplains as they migrate.
Creativity Prize (10th Award, 2022) for developing environmentally friendly “water positive” nanoscale materials to achieve affordable, sustainable and rapid removal of arsenic from drinking water.
Groundwater Prize (6th Award, 2014) for his critical contributions to the development of mathematical hydrogeology and transport modelling in groundwater systems.
Creativity Prize (4th Award, 2010) for the invention and development of the new field of Ecohydrology, which bridges the gap between the physical and life sciences.
Creativity Prize (4th Award, 2010) for the invention and development of the new field of Ecohydrology, which bridges the gap between the physical and life sciences.
Creativity Prize (5th Award, 2012) for developing an innovative and effective method of treating the arsenic contamination of groundwater using electrocoagulation.
Dr. Maria Cristina Rulli (Polytechnic University of Milan, Italy)
Creativity Prize (11th Award, 2024)
for novel analyses of the water-energy-food nexus describing how numerous complex factors interact, providing for better freshwater stewardship in a changing, globalised world.
Creativity Prize (10th Award, 2022) for developing environmentally friendly “water positive” nanoscale materials to achieve affordable, sustainable and rapid removal of arsenic from drinking water.
Creativity Prize (9th Award, 2020) for developing adsorbents, coagulants and membrane materials from sustainable, biomass-sourced nanocellulose fibres along with numerous practical applications that promise to provide effective water purification for off-grid communities of the developing world.
Dr. Virender K. Sharma (Texas A&M University, USA)
Alternative Water Resources Prize (11th Award, 2024)
for the effective removal of antibiotics and pharmaceuticals from wastewater through advanced oxidative processes by activated ferrate, which work at enhanced efficiency in water containing natural organic matter.
Creativity Prize (6th Award, 2014) for the development of a state-of-the-art system for accurately monitoring, modeling, and forecasting drought on regional, continental and global scales.
Creativity Prize (8th Award, 2018) for developing the new field of Sociohydrology, a ground-breaking paradigm for water management and a new validated approach for studying the dynamic interactions and bi-directional feedbacks between water systems and people.
Creativity Prize (6th Award, 2014) for the discovery that standard geodetic GPS instruments are sensitive to hydrological influences and the subsequent development of a new, unexpected, and cost-effective technique, GPS Interferometric Reflectometry (GPS-IR), to measure soil moisture, snow depth, and vegetation water content.
Water Management & Protection Prize (4th Award, 2010) for the development and refinement of the PERSIANN model to estimate precipitation from satellite remotely sensed data.
Surface Water Prize (1st Award, 2004) for developing a statistical framework for understanding and interpreting hydrologic and flood data, including historical and regional information, so that flood risk management and flood control projects can effectively address the real risk of floods to lives, property, economic activities, and society generally.
Creativity Prize (10th Award, 2022) for developing environmentally friendly “water positive” nanoscale materials to achieve affordable, sustainable and rapid removal of arsenic from drinking water.
Surface Water Prize (5th Award, 2012) 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.
Alternative Water Resources Prize (4th Award, 2010) for his work in the use of nanofiltration membrane technology for industrial water recycling, aiming at the ambitious goal of zero wastewater discharge.
Creativity Prize (5th Award, 2012) for developing an innovative and effective method of treating the arsenic contamination of groundwater using electrocoagulation.
Groundwater Prize (8th Award, 2018) for the development and application of key theoretical and software tools that describe water flow and contaminant transport in the subsurface.
Creativity Prize (10th Award, 2022) for developing advanced oxidation technologies and nanotechnologies for the removal and monitoring of emerging contaminants.
Alternative Water Resources Prize (7th Award, 2016) for developing novel hollow fibre membranes that combine forward osmosis with a reverse osmosis (RO)-like inner selective layer and a novel and previously undiscovered positively charged nanofiltration (NF)-like outer selective layer, which effectively reduces the effects of scaling and flux losses.
Alternative Water Resources Prize (8th Award, 2018) for creating a solar-powered device that uses an innovative porous metal-organic framework (MOF) to capture water from the atmosphere.
Alternative Water Resources Prize (9th Award, 2020) for work at the forefront of the solar-water nexus, involving solar-energy driven fresh-water generation using environmental nanotechnology, solar desalination, zero liquid discharge desalination, and atmospheric water harvesting.
Creativity Prize (7th Award, 2016) for applying knowledge of the effects of ocean-atmosphere interactions on monsoon strength to provide one-to-two-week lead time forecasts of monsoonal floods for highly populated coastal regions.
Water Management & Protection Prize (2nd Award, 2006) for developing suitable modelling tools for effective water resources management in arid and semi-arid areas.
Creativity Prize (6th Award, 2014) for the development of a state-of-the-art system for accurately monitoring, modeling, and forecasting drought on regional, continental and global scales.
Dr. Xilin Xia (University of Birmingham, UK)
Surface Water Prize (11th Award, 2024)
for developing innovative, open-source, multi-GPU hydrodynamic models to support real-time flood forecasting at high temporal-spatial resolutions.
Dr. Yan Xiong (Jiangsu Open University, Nanjing, China)
Surface Water Prize (11th Award, 2024)
for developing innovative, open-source, multi-GPU hydrodynamic models to support real-time flood forecasting at high temporal-spatial resolutions.
Alternative Water Resources Prize (8th Award, 2018) for creating a solar-powered device that uses an innovative porous metal-organic framework (MOF) to capture water from the atmosphere.
Dr. Yang Yang (Zhejiang University, China)
Creativity Prize (11th Award, 2024)
for developing working, versatile soft robots with unprecedented maneuverability that have the capacity for numerous underwater research and monitoring applications.
Surface Water Prize (3rd Award, 2008) for significant contributions to the understanding of sediment transport and river hydraulics, particularly through the development of the Unit Stream Power Equation and the well-known GSTARS programme for sediment computations.
Dr. Yingying Yao (Xi'an Jiaotong University, China)
Groundwater Prize (11th Award, 2024)
for powerful management tools to understand groundwater processes in ecohydrologic systems under diverse hydrological and climatic conditions, considering environmental and socioeconomic factors at local and national scales.
Water Management & Protection Prize (6th Award, 2014) for his development of optimization models to plan, manage and operate large-scale water resources systems throughout the world.
Creativity Prize (6th Award, 2014) for the discovery that standard geodetic GPS instruments are sensitive to hydrological influences and the subsequent development of a new, unexpected, and cost-effective technique, GPS Interferometric Reflectometry (GPS-IR), to measure soil moisture, snow depth, and vegetation water content.
Dr. Radek Zbořil (Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic)
Alternative Water Resources Prize (11th Award, 2024)
for the effective removal of antibiotics and pharmaceuticals from wastewater through advanced oxidative processes by activated ferrate, which work at enhanced efficiency in water containing natural organic matter.
Dr. Jiaheng Zhao (FM Global, Singapore)
Surface Water Prize (11th Award, 2024)
for developing innovative, open-source, multi-GPU hydrodynamic models to support real-time flood forecasting at high temporal-spatial resolutions.
Dr. Chunmiao Zheng (Eastern Institute of Technology, Ningbo, China)
Groundwater Prize (11th Award, 2024)
for powerful management tools to understand groundwater processes in ecohydrologic systems under diverse hydrological and climatic conditions, considering environmental and socioeconomic factors at local and national scales.
Creativity Prize (4th Award, 2010) for 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 — passively, non-invasively and economically.
