Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Water

Deadline: 31 December 2017

Nominations are open for Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Water (PSIPW), an international award focusing on water-related scientific innovation and judged by leading scientists from around the world. Five prizes are bestowed every two years.

Prize Topics

Surface Water Prize

Water Harvesting
Rain & Runoff Water Modeling
Effects of Global Warming on Precipitation
Flood Mitigation & Control
Evaporation & Transpiration
Sedimentation Control in Surface Water Systems

Groundwater Prize

Groundwater Recharge
Groundwater Exploration & Assessment
Groundwater Contamination
Aquifer Characteristics
Hydrogeology
Pumping Tests

Alternative Water Resources Prize

Desalination
Wastewater Treatment
Water Reclamation, Purification & Recycling
Innovative Water Production Methods
Cloud Seeding
Fog & Dew

Water Management & Protection Prize

Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM)
Water Conservation
Water Demand Management
Water Pollution Control
Sustainability of Water Resources
Irrigation Water Management & Conservation

Prize Criteria

PSIPW awards five Prizes, a Creativity Prize and four Specialized Prizes

The Creativity Prize is open to pioneering and innovative multi-disciplinary work in any water-related field. The work should provide an original solution which is useful to society and contribute to development and social upliftment, while being practical, environmentally friendly, and cost-effective.
Each of the four Specialized Prizes is dedicated to the wide range of research topics that fall within its scope. Nominations are open to all innovative and current research that is relevant to one of the four prizes, which together cover the entire water research landscape.

Eligibility Criteria

In the event that a team of individuals are being nominated, all team members must be named at the time of application and one member must be specified as their representative. Groups of people working on the same project may not be nominated separately. They must be nominated as a group with a single nomination form.
The nominee must be an individual or group of individuals. An organization is not eligible to be a nominee for the Prizes.
Nominations for the Creativity Prize must be made by a university, institution, or government agency on behalf of individuals or teams of researchers. Individuals may not nominate themselves or others for the Creativity Prize. Nominations for the Specialized Prizes are by direct self-nomination.
The work or works being considered for the nomination must have been completed no more than five (5) years prior to the nomination deadline for the current Prize.
Published research papers, published books, and registered patents may be submitted for consideration. Unpublished works and unregistered patents are ineligible for the Prize.
No more than five (5) distinct works may be submitted. Multiple works should not be collected together and submitted as a single work.
Works will be reviewed and judged in English. If the work being nominated was originally published in a language other than English, it must be submitted in the original language accompanied by a full translation or by a translation of the parts of the work that are to be considered for the Prize. If a partial English translation is provided for a work submitted in another language, then only that portion of the work which is translated will be considered for assessment.
A nominee can only be nominated for one of the five Prizes during the same award.
The work being nominated must not have previously been a recipient of any other international prize. (However, it may have been the recipient of local or regional prizes.)
Members of the Prize committees and their immediate relatives may not be nominated for the Prize.