On 29 October 2018, the 8th Awards Ceremony of the Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Water was held at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. The event which took place under the patronage of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, King Salman Bin Abdulaziz of Saudi Arabia, was sponsored by the UN Missions of Saudi Arabia, Tajikistan, and Thailand along with the United Nations Office of Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA).
On 20 June 2018, HRH Prince Khaled Bin Sultan announced the winners for the 8th Award of the Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Water (PSIPW) at the opening session of UNISPACE+50 in Vienna, Austria.
The United Nations and the Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Water co-organise the International Conference on the Use of Space Technology for Water Management every three years in various host countries around the world. Previous conferences have been held in Riyadh, Buenos Aires, and Rabat.
Applications for nominations to the 8th Award (2018) officially closed on 31 December 2017. Nominations were received from 50 countries, with many countries represented by multiple nominations. Once again, more nominations were submitted than at any time in the Prize's history.
PSIPW Chairman, HRH Prince Khaled Bin Sultan, gave the opening address at the 4th Arab Water Forum on 27 November, in his capacity as the Arab Water Council’s honorary president.
