Great Man-made River Prize awarded to two centres in the United States of America
Mr. Koïchiro Matsuura, Director-General of UNESCO, has awarded this year's Great Man-made River International Water Prize to a research team composed of specialists from the Centre for the Sustainability of semi-Arid Hydrology and Riparian Areas (SAHRA) at the University of Arizona, and the Centre for Hydrometeorology and Remote Sensing (CHRS) at the University of California, Irvine.
The Prize will be awarded on the occasion of the World Science Day for Peace and Development, on 10 November 2007, at the Hungarian Parliament, in Budapest.
The Libyan Arab Jamahiriya has proposed and sponsored the establishment of the Great Man-made River International Water Prize for "Water Resources in Arid and Semi-Arid Areas" presented by UNESCO.
The Prize recognizes the achievements of an individual, a group of individuals or a research institution having made fundamental and substantial contributions to the assessment, development, management and/or use of water resources in arid and semi-arid areas. More particularly, it rewards remarkable scientific research and scientific studies and discoveries in the field of exploration of groundwater and surface water usage in arid zones subject to drought and desertification and contributing to environmental and human development.
The Prize is awarded biennially by the Director-General of UNESCO and comprises a certificate, a medal and a financial award.
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