Awards

Purpose and Objective

Purpose

We seek new trends in understanding water and sustainably-oriented solutions that capture the entire water cycle, preserve water environment and improve quality in every field of life.

The water footprint becomes an increasingly important part of a successful economy and industries. Companies are not only water consumers or water pollutants, but more and more a source and a hatchery of new technologies for water supply, water-treatment and water re-use. Often, their innovative solutions and good practices in the field of environment are not exploited well enough. The solutions that improve their attitude towards water resources, water environment and water use are important part of the new industrial revolution in times when water is becoming the most important strategic natural resource.

Objective

The goal of the awards is to create a pool of water-related solutions from around the globe thus putting their mark on improving the quality of life and transition to green economy.

In Responsible Towards Water Awards we include all the relevant participants – governments, private sector, experts, civil society, so the projects and ideas can be shared and connected with suitable recipients.

Who can participate?

Everyone can apply who contributes in any way to a rational use of drinking water and its improvement, takes care of cleaning and reuse of waste water and decreases water footprint, and especially those who enable new technological innovations for reaching goals of sustainable development in the field of water.

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Project Co-organizer

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Categories and application

Award categories and application

The criteria for evaluation and the terms and conditions of participation are indicated on the Participation invitation and application forms.

 

Participation invitation
RESPONSIBLE TOWARDS WATER

Corporate

Micro, small, medium and large sized companies that improve the quality of water resources, water environment, reduce water use and consider the entire water cycle.

Present your developmental solutions and achievements over the years based on the inclusion of Green and Blue infrastructure.

Please send the application to info@bledwf.com.

 

Application form
RESPONSIBLE TOWARDS WATER

National

In the category where ideas and solutions for responsible water management have the widest reach, national projects that include examples of good practice (living with water, industry, nature and people), developmental solutions based on the inclusion of Green and Blue infrastructure can apply.

Please send the application to info@bledwf.com.

 

Application form
RESPONSIBLE TOWARDS WATER

Individual

Any idea of improving responsible water management is a new step towards a better future. Individual projects (natural person), associations and non-governmental organizations can compete for the award with solutions for improving the quality of water resources, caring for the entire water cycle and improving the quality of life.

Please send the application to info@bledwf.com.

 

Application form

Awards 2021

At the conclusion of the Bled Water Festival on June 11 2021, five international “Responsible Towards Water” Awards were granted for water innovations.

 

Awards RESPONSIBLE TOWARDS WATER are granted in partnership with Slovenian Ministry for the Environment and Spatial Planning and nine partners from seven countries (presetned here).

 

Jury:

Mihael J. Toman, Ph.D., Department of Biology, Chair of Ecology and Environment Conservation at the Biotechnical Faculty, University of Ljubljana and the president of the Jury

Romain Ciarlet, Secretary General, Fondation Prince Albert II de Monaco

Dóra Gere, National Public Health Center, Hungary

Elizabeta Kos, Director of Water Management and Sea Protection Directorate, Ministry of Economy and Sustainable Development, Croatia

Tanja Miškova, Ambassador, Department of International Organisations, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Slovenia

Mojca Šraj, Slovenian National Committee for IHP UNESCO, Slovenia

 

Photo by Matjaž Resman

RESPONSIBLE TOWARDS WATER:
Corporate award for micro company

 

The award was given to the Smart hydration station project by the Slovenian company MyWater,

which took up the challenge of solving the discarded plastic water bottles problem by developing a smart hydration station. The station is a combination of mechanical equipment and advanced water filtering technology for improving the quality, safety and accessibility of drinking water, which is obtained locally and is free of charge at the place of use. This means a significantly lower carbon footprint compared to water in plastic bottles.

 

RESPONSIBLE TOWARDS WATER:
Corporate award for small company

 

In the Corporate – small businesses category, the jury awarded the PlanetCare Microfiber Filter project by another Slovenian company: Planet Care. 

The company has developed a unique filter for washing machines, which with its proven 90% efficiency rate and a completely closed loop is able to remove micro plastics from water after each washing cycle, thus preventing them from reaching the oceans.

RESPONSIBLE TOWARDS WATER:
Corporate award for medium company

 

The award was presented to the System SPiD project by the company WOFIL Robert Muszański from Poland.

The goal of the company is to encourage the use of ozone instead of chlorine for oxidating and decontaminating water. The company has developed a mobile version of the system which works according to the plug&play principle and is easy to use – on new as well as current water purification systems. The SPiD system operates by imitating natural processes and thus decreases the use of chemicals.

 

RESPONSIBLE TOWARDS WATER:
Corporate award for large company

 

The award was presented to the Small wastewater treatment plant with filtration medium project by the Slovenian company Kostak.

The company has developed an efficient technology for household waste water treatment. The plant itself is located underground and combines processes, such as sedimentation, filtration and dripping. The main process is based on bio-film, which grows attached on the support medium (gravel of different granule sizes in the filtration medium). Due to preserving nutrients, such as nitrogen and phosphorus in the water, households may later on use this water for dipping.

RESPONSIBLE TOWARDS WATER:
National Award
An award was also presented for the national project titled Finnish Water Stewardship Commitment.

The project poses a challenge to Finnish companies, namely to assess their water risks and opportunities, in accordance with the Sustainable Development Goal 6 of the United Nations, and to develop sustainable water use and management in own international value chains. The project, defining concrete solutions for achieving this goal in 2030, concluded in April 2021.

 

Watch the video of the awards ceremony and the interview with the winners.

Awards

2021

AWARDS RESPONSIBLE TOWARDS WATER
Micro Company

MYWATER, Slovenia
Smart hydration station

 

Small  Company

PlanetCare, Slovenia
PlanetCare Microfiber Filter

Medium Company

WOFIL Robert Muszański, Poland
System SPiD

Large  Company

Kostak, Slovenia
Small wastewater treatment plant with filtration medium

National Project

Finland
Finnish Water Stewardship Commitment

2019

AWARDS
RESPONSIBLE TOWARD WATER

 

Micro Company

Zero Carbon, Slovenia
myWater ATM

 

Medium Company

Maribor Waterworks Company, Slovenia
Innovative sound page

 

National Award

Horticultural society Maribor, Slovenia
Risk for drought in the Danube Region

 

Individual Award

Jure Pirc, Slovenia
Cryptowater.si – Water on Blockchain

 

THE BEST UNDERWATER CLEANUP

DPA Vivera Ljubljana, Slovenia
Underwater cleanup project of river Ljubljanica in 2018

 

THE MOST TASTEFUL WATER IN SLOVENIA

Surce near the road Podlebelca

 

THE MOST DARING PROJECT

2467 km – A journey to the Black Sea
Pascal Rösler, Germany

2018

AWARDS
RESPONSIBLE TOWARD WATER

 

Micro Company

Kakis, Slovenia
KAKIS, the next generation of toilet

 

Medium Company

Komunalno podjetje Velenje, Slovenia
Effective management of water losses and the quality of drinking water

 

Large Company

Ericsson Nikola Tesla d.d., Croatia
WaterQ

 

Individual Award

Stanko Česen, Slovenia
Design and implementation of PVA-MBBR

 

THE BEST UNDERWATER CLEANUP

DPD Bled, Slovenia
Janez Andrejc, president

 

THE MOST TASTEFUL WATER IN SLOVENIA

Hotel Kristal Bohinj, Slovenia
Jan Dobravec, Manager

 

THE BEST ECOLOGICAL FILM

Trashed
Director Candida Brady, Great Britain

2017

AWARDS
RESPONSIBLE TOWARD WATER

 

Micro Company

Freewa Project, Croatia
Freewa project

 

Small Company

Alpen Adria Energie GmbH, Austria
The Little World of Waterenergy

 

Large Company

Petrol and Komunala Kranj, Slovenia
Technical and Economic Optimisation of the Water System Kranj

 

Individual Award

Anže Logar, Slovenia

 

National Award

Public institution AQUATIKA – Freshwater Aquarium Karlovac, Croatia
Aquatika – Freshwater Aquarium Karlovac

 

2016

AWARDS
RESPONSIBLE TOWARD WATER

 

DOPPS – BirdLife Slovenia

Municipality Koper, Slovenia

Luka Koper, Slovenia

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