page_title: Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Water
section_title: Award ceremonies
hierarchical_section_title: Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Water / Award ceremonies
caption_attribution_description: English: This is an image of Professor Abdul Latif Ahmad receiving the Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Water from Prince Saud Bin Abdulaziz at the 2006 awards ceremony held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia in November of 2006 concurrenty with the 2nd International Conference on Water Resources and Arid Environments
context_page_description: The Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Water is a Saudi Arabian scientific prize, established on 21 October 2002 by Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz Al Saud. The Prize has its headquarters at the Prince Sultan Research Center for Environment, Water and Desert at King Saud University.
  It is a bi-annual international scientific award that accepts nominations from all over the world. For its third round the Prize received 198 nominations from 53 countries, with the Creativity Prize, worth more than a quarter of a million dollars, receiving 73 of those nominations.
context_section_description: The secretariat of the Prize typically announces the names of the winners in October, with the Prizes being awarded at a formal ceremony held in November in conjunction with an academic conference.
  The ceremony for the First Award was held on Sunday, 5 December 2004 at King Saud University along with the 1st International Conference on Water Resources and Arid Environments. The ceremony for the Second Award took place on 26 November 2006 concurrently with the 2nd International Conference on Water Resources and Arid Environments.
  The ceremony for the Third Award took place on Sunday, 16 November 2008 in conjunction with the 3rd International Conference on Water Resources and Arid Environments 2008 and 1st Arab Water Forum, which ran from 16 to 19 November. The ceremony was attended by Prince Willem-Alexander, Crown Prince of the Netherlands, Prince of Orange and Chairman of the Advisory Commission of United Nations Secretary General for Water and Sanitation Affairs.
caption: Professor Abdul Latif Ahmad receiving the Prize from Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz at the 2006 awards ceremony
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