su konusundaki çalışmalarda/araştırmalarda ve aktivitelerde büyük başarılar kazananları taltif etmeye yönelik prestijli bir ödüldür. 1991 yılından beri verilmektedir.
şu ana kadar kazananların listesi aşağıdaki gibi olan ödüldür:
"2011:Stephen R. Carpenter, United States
2010: Professor Rita R. Colwell, United States
2009: Dr. Bindeshwar Pathak, founder of Sulabh International
2008: Professor John Anthony Allan, King's College London and the School of Oriental and African Studies
2007: Professor Perry L. McCarty, Stanford University, United States
2006: Professor Asit K. Biswas, The Third World Center for Water Management
2005: Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) under the directorship of Ms. Sunita Narain, New Delhi, India
2004: Professor Sven Erik Jørgensen, Danish University of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Copenhagen, Denmark and Professor William J. Mitsch, Olentangy River Wetland Research Park at The Ohio State University, United States
2003: Professor Peter A. Wilderer, Technical University of Munich, Germany
2002: Professor Ignacio Rodríguez-Iturbe, Princeton University, United States
2001: Professor Takashi Asano, University of California at Davis, United States
2000: Professor Kader Asmal, Ministry of Education, South Africa1999: Professor Werner Stumm, Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Switzerland and James J. Morgan, California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, United States
1999: Professor Werner Stumm, Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Switzerland and James J. Morgan, California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, United States
1998: Professor Gedeon Dagan, Tel Aviv University, Israel
1997: Professor Peter S. Eagleson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States
1996: Professor Jörg Imberger, University of Western Australia
1995: Water Aid, under the leadership of Jon Lane, Great Britain
1994: Dr. Takeshi Kubo, Research Institute of Wastewater Management, Japan
1993: Dr. Madhav Atmaram Chitale, International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage, India
1992: Department of Environmental Engineering at the Technical University of Denmark, under the leadership of Professor Poul Harremoës'
1991: Professor David W. Schindler, University of Alberta, Canada"