Bangladeshi origin scientist Shafiqul Islam wins Prince Sultan prize for water

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The Saudi Crown Sovereign acquainted the honors in 2002 with reward logical endeavors adding to feasible accessibility of consumable water and address the worldwide issue of water shortage.

The group of Rita Colwell of College of Maryland and Islam of Tufts College has been granted the current year's innovativeness prize for creating and testing a model that utilizations chlorophyll data from satellite information to anticipate cholera flare-ups no less than three to six months ahead of time.

The honors function will be held at the UN Home office in New York on Nov 2, the PSIPW said on its site.

The prize is shared by two groups this year.

Diminish J Webster of Georgia Organization of Innovation, USA is the other beneficiary for his work on sea climate associations and their impact on rainstorm quality, which is utilized to give one to two-week lead time conjectures of monsoonal surges.

A Structural Building move on from the Bangladesh College of Designing and Innovation (BUET), Shafiul finished his Phd from the Massachusetts Foundation of Innovation (MIT).

A teacher at the Common and Natural Building at the Tufts College, he additionally heads the Water Strategy Program at the college.

He keeps up a dynamic universal counseling and preparing work on, incorporating national water arranging in Bangladesh and surge determining in India.

In 2012, the group of Bangladeshi researcher Abu Borhan Mohammad Badruzzaman of BUET and Charles Franklin Harvey of the MIT was granted the PSIPW Groundwater Prize.

The honor was given for building up a model for comprehension and keeping the arsenic pollution of groundwater.

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