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The Stockholm Water Prize is the world’s most prestigious water award. Learn more about the history of the Prize, the trailblazing laureates, and how you can nominate your water heroes.
Since 1991, the Stockholm Water Prize has been awarded to people and organizations for extraordinary water-related achievements.
The Award
The Prize is awarded by Stockholm Water Foundation in cooperation with the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and presented by H.M King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden, who is the official patron of the Prize.
The winner of the Stockholm Water Prize is announced every year usually in March in conjunction with World Water Day. A royal prize ceremony is held as part of World Water Week in August, where the Laureate plays an important role.
Nominations for the 2025 Stockholm Water Prize is open from 25 March to 30 September 2024.
2024 Laureate
Based on his world-renowned research on the virtual water trade, digital river mapping, and inclusion of human activity in the water cycle – Professor Taikan Oki wins the Stockholm Water Prize 2024.
Meet the 2024 Laureate
- Stockholm Water Prize
- Water and the 2030 Agenda
- Water and climate
- Water cooperation
- Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
- World Water Week
- Stockholm Water Prize
- Stockholm Junior Water Prize
- Stockholm Water Prize
- Youth and water
- Stockholm Junior Water Prize
- Stockholm Water Prize
- Stockholm Water Prize
- Water governance
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