Dr Herman Bouwer acceptance speach
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| Greetings! Sorry I cannot be here with you in person, but because of health reasons I am unable to travel great distances. Thus, appearing on the screen here is the best we can do. First of all I do wish to commend Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz and the Prince Sultan Research Center for Environment, Water, and Desert for establishing these water prizes. They are indeed a welcome recognition of the importance of water and it is only fitting that the prizes are given by a country in an arid region where water is priceless and sustainable use of the resource is a major challenge.
I am deeply touched by the honor you bestowed on me by giving me the prize for groundwater and I thank you from the bottom of my heart. I also want to thank the dedicated people that nominated me for this award. They spent a lot of time and effort to prepare a prize winning nomination. Also, the congratulatory responses I have been receiving from my friends and colleagues all over the world have been very rewarding.
Again, I wish you a successful program and conference, and again I thank you very much for the honor.
Herman Bouwer (1103) |
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