WEF congratulates 2022 Stockholm Water Prize winner

As a founding partner of the Stockholm Water Prize, the Water Environment Federation (WEF) congratulates 2022 winner Wilfried Brutsaert, who was selected for his groundbreaking work to quantify environmental evaporation, helping to make accurate predictions of the impact that climate change has on local rainfall patterns and water sources. 

Brutsaert is one of the world’s leading authorities on terrestrial evaporation, a crucial aspect of the water cycle but very difficult to measure or estimate, particularly at the local level. Brutsaert’s work has provided tools to overcome this difficulty that are particularly important to local communities needing to predict how much water is available today and how much will be available in the future.