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CSE bags Stockholm Water Prize
The NGO has won the annual Stockholm Water Prize, which includes a $150,000 cash award.
The Centre for Science and Environment has won the annual Stockholm Water Prize, which includes a $150,000 cash award, its organisers said on Tuesday.
The New Delhi-based group, led by Sunita Narain, was cited for its work in promoting effective water management along with improved human rights, democracy and health.
In its citation, the prize committee praised CSE for its "successful recovery of old and generation of new knowledge on water management, a community-based sustainable integrated resource management under gender equity, a courageous stand against undemocratic, top-down bureaucratic resource control, an efficient use of a free press, and an independent judiciary to meet these goals."
The group will collect the prize from King Carl XVI Gustaf in Sweden.
The Stockholm Water Prize is awarded annually to individuals and institutions for making a substantial contribution to the preservation, enhancement or availability of the world's water resources.
