Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Water: First Award

The prize council announced the names of the winners on 31-10-2004 as follows:

1- The winner of the first branch of the prize, "surface water", topic: " Effective Flood Control Methods" is:

2- The winner of the second branch of the prize, "Ground Water" , topic: "Artificial Ground Water Recharge" is:

3- the winners equally sharing the same prize of the third branch, "Alternative (non-traditional) water resources"; topic: "Economical Technologies in Sea Water Desalination" are :

Professor Dr. Hisham Taha Abdulla El – Dossouky- Egypt.

Professor Dr. Hisham Ettouney – Egypt.

4- the winner of the fourth branch of the prize, "Water Recourses Management", topic : "Effective New Techniques for Irrigation Water Conservation" is:

King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology - Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

5- The prize for the fifth branch of the prize: "Water Resources Protection", topic: ”Protecting Ground Water From Agricultural Pollutants”, has not been awarded this period due to the lack of nominees for this subject. This reflects the deficiency of international experience in dealing with this subject, which in turn will be an incentive to make more hard international research efforts in this field.