Invitation to Nominate 2006 Stockholm Industry Water Award - IVA

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Background The Stockholm Industry Water Award aims to stimulate business sector contributions to sustainable development of water consumption and to reduced pollution load on the environment. The award is established by the Stockholm Water Foundation in co-operation with the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development to stimulate the business sector’s contribution to sustainable development of water resources, and to minimise water consumption and pollution load on the environment. Focus on Business and Industry The honorary award focuses on business and industry and recognises innovative approaches to the development of water and wastewater process technologies, contributions to environmental improvement through improved performance in production processes, new products and other significant contributions to helping improve the world water situation and contributing to meeting the United Nation’s Millennium Development Goals for water and sanitation. The award is presented each August during the World Water Week in Stockholm. In conjunction with the award ceremony the Laureate company has the opportunity to demonstrate its activities and achievements with a poster exhibition and an oral presentation. The Award Committee An international award committee appointed by the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences reviews the nominations and selects the winning company. The committee is chaired by a representative of the Academy and contains representatives of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, the Stockholm Water Foundation, the Global Water Partnership, the International Water Association and leading academics of water sciences. The Stockholm International Water Institute, SIWI, administers the award and serves as its secretariat. Nominating Procedure A company or business organisation can be nominated independently or by itself. The information on achievements in the nomination should be attested in written form by at least two well-informed and knowledgeable persons independent from the nominated candidate. Other supporting documents (annual reports, etc.) are welcome, though not required. The nomination text, not exceeding 10 pages, should describe the specific achievements of the candidate in a concise manner. Effects in the form of reduced discharges of pollutants, reduced water consumption and the improved environmental situation should be described with statistical figures as appropriate. The award committee will contact the nominee for further information if required. Nominations must be made in English. Guidelines for writing a nomination can be found at www.siwi.org. The Award The award includes a crystal sculpture and the right to use the name and logo of the award in marketing and communication activities during a three-year period beginning on the day the award is made. Nomination Deadline The deadline for nomination is February 28, 2006.
Previous Winners 2005 The Stockholm Industry Water Award was awarded to the Procter & Gamble Company, USA, in recognition of its development of the PuR – Purifi er of Water ® drinking water treatment system for households not served by a potable water supply system, or for use in disaster relief. Designed for use in the developing world, where over 1 billion people still lack access to safe drinking water and an estimated two million children die each year because of preventable diarrhoeal diseases, the product consists of a sachet of chemicals commonly used in conventional municipal water treatment. Each sachet contains powder to treat 10 litres of water and is effective in removing bacteria, viruses, parasites and some heavy metals in contaminated water. Recognising that safe drinking water is a fundamental and critical need, the company has provided the research and development, manufacturing and fi nancial resources to develop PuR ® . Mr. Gregory S. Allgood, Director, Children’s Safe Drinking Water, Procter & Gamble, received the Prize from Mr. Stig Larsson, Chairman, Stockholm Water Foundation. 2004 Staple Fibre Division of Grasim Industries Ltd, India, received the Stockholm Industry Water Award for reducing its water consumption by 85%, process steam by 51% and electrical usage by 43% since 1980. Its winning concept builds upon three pillars: reduced water consumption per unit of production year after year through increased equipment effi ciency by way of design and technological improvements, adoption of innovative cleaner process technology to eliminate the use of zinc in the production of viscose fi bre, and transparency and openness. 2004 Zenon Environmental Inc. received the Stockholm Industry Water Award for its innovative development in membrane technology. ZENON’s low-pressure immersed hollow membranes called ZeeWeed ® offer a simple, reliable and robust separation process for treatment to remove various constituents including pathogen microorganisms. The ZeeWeed ® membrane technology, which resembles a bundle of seaweeds sweeping in the treatment tank, can be effi ciently used in industrial as well as municipal plants and leads to signifi cantly higher treated water quality than traditional methods. 2002 Kaldnes Miljøteknologi AS, a Norwegian environmental technology company that has developed an innovative, compact and fl exible biological water treatment process, was the recipient of the Stockholm Industry Water Award. The patented Moving Bed Process makes wastewater treatment more effi cient. Thanks to the technology, treatment facilities in the pulp and paper, pharmaceuticals, dairy, chemical and food industries, as well as municipalities, are smaller, more effi cient at cleaning water, easier to build or upgrade, and more fl exible. 2001 The General Motors de Mexico Ramos Arizpe Complex received the Stockholm Industry Water Award for its extensive use of water and wastewater treatment and recycling techniques that conserve a scarce resource in an area of extreme water scarcity. The facility enhanced production while at the same time reduced water consumption through reuse of both industrial and sanitary wastewater within production processes. By manufacturing more products with less water, it demonstrated the win-win opportunity of integrative solutions, for both the region and the production complex. 2000 Northumbrian Water Limited, UK, received the Stockholm Industry Water Award for its forward looking initiative at achieving a regional solution to sewage treatment and disposal, in co-operation with local governments and regulatory agencies, businesses and other nongovernmental organisations. It successfully integrated technology and regional industrial and legislative bodies into a new wastewater strategy that enabled itself and neighbouring industries to meet regulations, produce useful end products, bring a dramatic improvement to the River Tees and be energy- and environmentally effective. 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000
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