Under the Patronage of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques,
King Salman Bin Abdulaziz Al Saud
and supported by
the Permanent Mission of Saudi Arabia to the United Nations in Vienna,
the Permanent Mission of Saudi Arabia to the United Nations in New York, and
the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA)
The 11th Awards Ceremony of the Prince Sultan
Bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Water (2024)
United Nations Office at Vienna, VIC
8 November 2024, 16:00-17:30 Conference Room 1
Leading international scientists with a diversity of backgrounds -- including materials science, chemistry, engineering, and environmental science, as well as hydrology -- won the five prizes for a wide variety of relevant, groundbreaking solutions that promise to help provide needed drinking water to the world's people.
Creativity Prize: The team of Maria Cristina Rulli (Polytechnic of Milan, Italy) and Paolo D’Odorico (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
They spearheaded novel analyses of the water-energy-food nexus, describing how numerous, complex factors interact, providing managers and policymakers better ways to be stewards of freshwater in a changing, globalised world.