Blue Diversion Wins Prestigious IWA Award 2014 |
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The International Water Association IWA announced the winners of the IWA 2014 Global Project Innovation Awards. Blue Diversion by Eawag and EOOS, supported by Tribecraft is the recipient of the Global Honour Award in the Applied Research category. |
This prominent industry prize marks the second IWA honouring of the Blue Diversion toilet: in March this year it was awarded the innovation prize for the best applied research in the Europe/West Asia sector.
"We are very proud to be the second most innovative applied research project in the world...in our field and according to IWA. Receiving engineering prizes is extremely valuable for the Eawag departments involved as IWA is a very important part of our international peer group," says Tove Larsen, the Blue Diversion project leader.
The awards were presented at the 2014 Project Innovation Awards Ceremony on 24 September in conjunction with the IWA World Water Congress & Exhibition in Lisbon, Portugal.
Two important goals: Autarky and industrial partners
The Blue Diversion team is now pursuing two goals: led by Kai Udert from Eawag, and in cooperation with the Paul Scherrer Institute as well as the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland, it is working towards incorporating resource recovery technologies in the toilet itself. At the same time, the team is seeking industrial partners for the commercialization of the Blue Diversion basic toilet. The latter is led by Heiko Gebauer, Eawag.
"We are very proud to be the second most innovative applied research project in the world...in our field and according to IWA. Receiving engineering prizes is extremely valuable for the Eawag departments involved as IWA is a very important part of our international peer group," says Tove Larsen, the Blue Diversion project leader.
The awards were presented at the 2014 Project Innovation Awards Ceremony on 24 September in conjunction with the IWA World Water Congress & Exhibition in Lisbon, Portugal.
Two important goals: Autarky and industrial partners
The Blue Diversion team is now pursuing two goals: led by Kai Udert from Eawag, and in cooperation with the Paul Scherrer Institute as well as the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland, it is working towards incorporating resource recovery technologies in the toilet itself. At the same time, the team is seeking industrial partners for the commercialization of the Blue Diversion basic toilet. The latter is led by Heiko Gebauer, Eawag.
