Prof Wilfried Brutsaert bags Stockholm Water Prize 2022

Highlights:

• Professor Emeritus Wilfried Brutsaert has been named as the Stockholm Water Prize Laureate 2022. 
• He has been awarded for his groundbreaking work to quantify environmental evaporation.
• Wilfried Brutsaert is Professor in Engineering Emeritus at Cornell University, USA.
• His innovative works on Evaporation and Hydrology are of lasting theoretical and practical importance, particularly in view of climate change.
• In addition, Wilfried Brutsaert has pioneered novel approaches to understanding changes in groundwater storage.
• The Stockholm Water Prize is the world’s most prestigious water award and is often described as the Nobel Prize of water.
• The prestigious Prize has been awarded since 1991 to people and organizations for extraordinary water-related achievements.
• The Prize is awarded by the Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI) in cooperation with the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
• it is noted that SIWI  was funded in 1991.Its headquarters located at Stockholm, Sweden.