by Brianna Crandall — September 7, 2012— Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI) recently presented three awards honoring companies and individuals from various countries for their efforts in water conservation. The awards were presented at the policy institute’s World Water Week in Stockholm, the annual meeting place to address the planet’s most urgent water-related issues.
The 2012 award winners are:
- 2012 Stockholm Industry Water Award: PepsiCo, for its work to reduce water consumption in its operations and to help solve water challenges on a broad scale. The global food and beverage company conserved nearly 16 billion liters of water in 2011, from a 2006 baseline, through the application of water-saving equipment and technologies, creative recycling and re-use, and by deploying a water management system throughout its manufacturing facilities.
- 2012 Stockholm Water Prize: International Water Management Institute (IWMI), headquartered in Sri Lanka and with regional offices across Asia and Africa, for its pioneering research that has served to improve agriculture water management, enhance food security, protect environmental health and alleviate poverty in developing countries.
- 2012 Stockholm Junior Water Prize: Students Luigi Marshall Cham, Jun Yong Nicholas Lim, and Tian Ting Carrie-Anne Ng from Singapore, for their research on how bentonite clay can be used to remove and recover pollutants from wastewater without generating any waste products, and then be cleaned and reused.
- 2012 Stockholm Water Prize: International Water Management Institute (IWMI), headquartered in Sri Lanka and with regional offices across Asia and Africa, for its pioneering research that has served to improve agriculture water management, enhance food security, protect environmental health and alleviate poverty in developing countries.
World Water Week brings together thousands of experts, practitioners, decision makers and business innovators from around the globe to exchange ideas, foster new thinking and develop solutions. The conference took place August 26-31, 2012, in Stockholm, Sweden. The short documentary “Taste the Waste of Water” was launched at this year’s event to highlight the Week’s emphasis on the issue of water and food waste.
