IWA young water professionals award - recognition of your work
April 22, 2010
This award recognises professionals under the age of 35, who are either water sector practitioners or from research/academia and havehad both outstanding career achievement to date and the potential to play a large and influential role in the water industry in the future.
Through the two years that the winner holds the award, the award holder becomes and ambassador of IWA and the IWA Young Water Professional Programme.
Eligibility and Criteria: Young professionals under the age of 35, who are either water sector practitioners or from research/academia. Awardees will have :
- An outstanding career achievement (either through their scientific contribution as researchers or working in the water industry) to date
- The potential to play a large and influential role in the water industry in the future.
- A demonstrable contribution to the public good in water
- Actively contributed to the promotion and development of IWA and the IWA YWP programme.
Nominations: should be forwarded to the Executive Director. A nomination must set out a summary of the nominee’s career to date highlighting and describing the outstanding achievements and how they meet the elegibility criteria. The nomination should indicate realistic potential future roles for the nominee. Where appropriate the international implications of the achievements should be described. A nomination must be supported by at least 3 senior and respected members from the water sector, one of whom should preferably be a nominee’s supervisor. Entries should be submitted by 1 May 2010.
Current Award Holder
The 2008 Young Water Professionals Award holder is Enrique Cabrera Jr of the Instituto Tecnologico del Agua, Valencia (Spain).
Shortly after obtaining his university degree, Enrique began researching on performance assessment of drinking water utilities. He soon joined the performance indicators taskforce within the IWA Efficient Operation Management Specialist Group. Enrique made small contributions to the first edition of the taskforce’ manual (including the development of the software Sigma Lite). For the second edition of the Performance indicators for water supply systems Enrique became a member of the core group developing the manual, contributing to the consolidation of the IWA proposal on performance indicators.
The IWA PI system has become the worldwide reference on this topic. In addition to the hundreds of initiatives worldwide using the system, the new ISO 24500 standards are based on the system, and part of this proposal has already been adopted by the American Water Works Association and the World Bank.
Due to the nature of the work within the Instituto Tecnológico del Agua, Enrique’s work has not been limited to pure research. He has participated in several initiatives including consultancy work for water companies, research projects funded by the EU and the Spanish Ministry, international standardization.
Enrique’s involvement in IWA can only be seen as exemplar, of which we need to highlight:
- Secretary of Efficient Operation and Management Specialist Group (since 2001)
- Leader of the Benchmarking Task Group (Since 2002)
- Chairman of Pi 2008 Confernece (Valencia, Spain)
- Programme Committee of IWA YWP Conferences 2004, 2006, 2008
- Water Science and Technology Water Supply Reviewer
Further information: http://www.iwahq.org/Home/Networks/Young_Water_Professionals/Young_Water_Professionals_Award/
