Your Chance to Help Create a Sustainable Future
Young people play a vital role in finding innovative solutions to help tackle climate change.
The Stockholm Junior Water Prize (SJWP) is open to pre-university students aged between 15-20 years old. Entrants compete with projects aimed at improving livelihoods and ecosystem health in the water environment. Projects can look at any aspect of the water sector, focusing on important local, national or global topics.
Every year, young people from over 30 countries compete at national level with the winners going on to represent their country at the international SJWP, held in Stockholm during World Water Week. Andrew Dunn represented the 2009 UK in Stockholm, where he won praise and an International Diploma for making a domestic flood defence barrier – ‘FloodDAM’. “If I had to sum-up my experience of SJWP in one word it would be ‘amazing!”’ beams Dunn. He was encouraged to create his inexpensive, recyclable, quick and easy to use design after many homes in his town were ruined by flooding back in 2000.
Previous winners of the SJWP have carried out projects on a diverse range of topics including raindrops being converted to electric energy, waste water being treated with eggshells and newspaper being used to help farmers save water.
The international Stockholm Junior Water Prize winner receives a USD 5,000 award and a prize sculpture, presented by HRH Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden.
Entry is now open to the 2010 SJWP.
Visit http://www.ciwem.org/awards/sjwp/ for further information
Email: sjwp@ciwem.org
