CEO's column and news from SA water sector July 2014

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Fluid thoughts Fluid Thoughts Fluid Thoughts WRC CEO, Dhesigen Naidoo The year 2014 represents a year of note for South Africa at the World Water Week to beheld in Stockholm in September. Two parties closely related to the South African water science and technology system have been confirmed as the recipients of its two highest annual awards. Dr John Briscoe, a South African trained in this system, who has been practicing as both an academic and water practitioner around the world, is the 2014 winner of the prestigious Stockholm Water Prize. In addition, the City of eThekwini, a longtime partner of the Water Research Commission (WRC), has been named by the Stockholm International Water Institute as the winner of the 2014 Industry Award for its innovative record as a water utility. This is a unique double, and if, in addition, the South African entrant to the Stockholm Junior Water Prize manages to walk away with the honours, it would indeed be the first time that any country would have done so. (More about both these awards can be read elsewhere in this issue).

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