A student team from Singapore won the 2012 Stockholm Junior Water Prize, presented by the Swedish Crown Princess Victoria on Wednesday evening during the World Water Week in Stockholm.
The 18-year-old Singaporean students Luigi Marshall Cham, Jun Yong Nicholas Lim and Tian Ting Carrie-Anne Ng won the prize for “their research on how clay can be used to remove and recover pollutants from waste water,” according to a statement released after the award ceremony.
“This year’s winning project shows the possibility of using a lower cost method to decrease an important water environment problem, which is relevant all over the world,” said the International Jury.
“The study does not only present an efficient way to remove a toxicant, but also a novel way to recover and reuse materials which would otherwise be discarded as waste,” added the Jury.
“We didn’t expect it. We are very happy. When we return home we will propose our idea to the Public Utility Board of Singapore (PUB) and hopefully they will implement it,” the student winners said after receiving the prize.
Jun Yong Nicholas Lim told Xinhua that he was very exciting. He hoped to do more research for saving water in the world, said Lim.
The competition of Stockholm Junior Water Prize, which was first awarded in 1997 and was worth 5,000 US dollars, is open to students between the age of 15 and 20 who have conducted a water related project.
