Stockholm International Water Institute » Alex Kirkby http://www.siwi.org Water Wise World Tue, 12 Feb 2013 15:26:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 The story of the Stockholm Water Prize laureates http://www.siwi.org/publication/the-story-of-the-stockholm-water-prize-laureates/ http://www.siwi.org/publication/the-story-of-the-stockholm-water-prize-laureates/#comments Thu, 15 Nov 2012 16:46:32 +0000 admin http://www.siwi.org/publication/the-story-of-the-stockholm-water-prize-laureates/ Since 1991, the Stockholm Water Prize has been presented annually to an individual, institution or organisation for outstanding water-related activities. The activities can be within the fields of education and awareness raising, human and international relations, research, water management or water related aid and development activities in developing countries.

What began with the valuable but modest aim of rewarding efforts to safeguard water has grown into one of the world’s most respected and important water prizes, and now celebrating its 20th anniversary.

]]> http://www.siwi.org/publication/the-story-of-the-stockholm-water-prize-laureates/feed/ 0 A Little Light Relief? http://www.siwi.org/publication/a-little-light-relief/ http://www.siwi.org/publication/a-little-light-relief/#comments Thu, 15 Nov 2012 16:37:53 +0000 admin http://www.siwi.org/publication/a-little-light-relief/ Most people in the developed world are fortunate: they can take proper sanitation for granted. But millions in poorer countries are denied this most basic of human needs. They suffer indignity and disease, and their societies suffer as well. Alex Kirby reports on the economic upside of sanitation.

Published in Water Front Magazine No.4 2007.

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