Dr Jay R. Lund, member of IAHR since 2017 and member of the IAHR working group on Water Systems Operations, has received the Water Management and Protection award of the 9th Prince Sultan Bin Abulaziz International Prize for Water. 

The 9th edition of the Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Water (PSIPW) has been awarded to five leading international scientists, including Dr Lund, with a diversity of backgrounds for a wide variety of relevant, groundbreaking solutions that promise to help provide needed drinking water to the world's people.

Dr Lund was awarded for having developed the CALVIN water supply optimization model, a tool for the integrated analysis of regional water supply systems that couples traditional water supply criteria with economic considerations. CALVIN was successful in reshaping and optimizing water planning and management in California, USA, with substantial improvements to the public welfare. Other countries around the world, including Mexico and Spain, have developed large-scale economic-engineering optimization models with CALVIN as their backbone. His work shows how the natural and social sciences can inform public policy in a challenging political environment and contribute to regional water conflict resolution. It also demonstrates how game theory, through the creative use of non-cooperative games, can be harnessed to develop more effective water management policies by identifying the externalities and evolutionary pathways of dynamic water resource problems.

Dr. Lund is a professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of California – Davis, member of Geography, Environmental Policy and Management, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Hydrologic Science, and Biological Systems Engineering graduate groups and co-director of the UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences. 

Congratulations to Dr Lund!

Nominations are currently open for the 10th Award (2022). Nominations can be made online for all prizes through the PSIPW website.