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PSIPW.ORG 13th Award 2028 Nominations open online until 31 December 2027 Apply Now PSIPW.ORG Prizewinners for the 12th Award (2026) Read more 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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