Deadline: 28-Sep-20
The International Water Association (IWA) has announced a call for nominations for the Global Water Award.
The IWA Global Water Award recognizes those individuals who, through innovative leadership and practice, have made a significant contribution to a world in which water is wisely managed. Showcasing exceptional individuals who have changed industry norms to create lasting progress, IWAs Global Water Award aims to recognize and reward those water innovators that are driving change.
It rewards an individual that has shown exceptional imagination, foresight or resilience to overcome obstacles and challenge industry norms to create new directions and open new possibilities for sustainable water management and practice. She or he must have worked inclusively and with professionals from across sectors and disciplines to create an innovative water solution/management practice that impacts/influences broader sustainable development.
Criteria
The following criteria form the basis for selection:
- Demonstrated excellence in science, technology, management or policy
- Vision, leadership, knowledge, persistence, creating new directions and opening new fields
- Recognized internationally within the membership of IWA
About IWA
- Water underpins every aspect of human and environmental existence. The severe water challenges facing the world today require an unprecedented global response. IWA members are situated in 140 countries worldwide, forming the largest international network of water professionals working towards a water-wise world.
- water management worldwide. Transformation cannot take place on its own in a vacuum. Rather the ideas for solutions to these challenges will be fomented and rigorously debated among the IWA’s institutions and membership.
- The International Water Association is an open, yet ordered the platform in which both innovators and adopters of new technologies and approaches can generate creative friction. It is a place for diffusion, benchmarking, and evidence.
- Their programs develop research and projects focused on solutions for water and wastewater management; they organize world-class events that bring the latest science, technology and best practice to the water sector at large; they work to place water on the global political agenda and to influence best practice in regulation and policymaking, and they do this via the IWA’s global membership.
For more information, visit https://iwa-network.org/global-water-award/