This Industry Innovation Award is conferred by IAHR during the World Congress on a recent local innovation in design of lasting and international importance. It has the purpose of giving international professional recognition to the work of local hydro-environment engineers.

2019: Ciudad del Saber (Panama)

Panama's Ciudad del Saber (Spanish for City of Knowledge) is a government-sponsored cluster of academic organizations, technology companies and non-governmental organizations, managed by the foundation of the same name.
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2017: SMART (Malaysia)

The Special Malaysia Disaster Assistance and Rescue Team is a disaster relief and rescue task force established under the National Security Council based on the approval of the Cabinet on 18 May 1994.
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2015: Open-Sourced Delft3D (The Netherlands)

Delft3D is a world leading 3D modeling suite to investigate hydrodynamics, sediment transport and morphology and water quality for fluvial, estuarine and coastal environments.
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