$150,000 Water Prize awarded
Posted: 20 April 2005
Indian environmental organisation, The Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) has won the $150,000 (114,000-euro) Stockholm Water Prize for its work to improve water management, the prize committee said.
The jury said the group had won the award due to its "successful recovery of old and generation of new knowledge on water management, a community-based sustainable integrated resource management under gender equity (and) a courageous stand against undemocratic, top-down bureaucratic resource control".
The organisation will receive its prize from the hands of King Carl XVI Gustaf at a ceremony at Stockholm's City Hall in August.
Under the leadership of Sunita Narain, CSE has "lobbied successfully for rainwater harvesting to be an accepted, important element in India's water strategy (and) spawned a rediscovery of this practical, traditional and inexpensive technique ... to help alleviate pressure on India's inefficient, centralized water system", the prize committee said.
Handing the prestigious award to CSE "acknowledges the growing crisis of water management in many regions of the South and the need for new approaches that provide local food and water security to communities", the committee added.
The Stockholm Water Prize has been awarded annually by the Stockholm Water Foundation since 1990 to honor achievements in water science, management, action or awareness building. It was founded by multinational corporations including US-based chemical giant DuPont and France-based aerospace group Snecma.
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