The 2009 World Water Week in Stockholm awarded the Water Prize to Laureate Dr. Bindeshwar Pathak.
He highlighted the urgency and international importance of the sanitation challenge -“If water is honoured by the Prize being named after it, the importance of sanitation, its sibling, cannot be left far behind,”
To read the press release of the acceptance speech, please click here
Videos The first episode of Water Pioneers featured John Matthews, a self proclaimed climate change adaptation 'midwife' with the WWF, to find out more about his work, his motivations and his hopes for the future. Watch the Water Pioneers video Are we really are heading for an era of "hydrological warfare" in which rivers and lakes become national security assets to be fought over, or controlled through armed forces? Or can water act as a force for peace and cooperation?
Listen to Dr Patricia Wouters, Director of the International Water Law Research Institute at Dundee University.
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