Indian sanitation guru receives Stockholm Water Prize (Lead)
August 21st, 2009 - 1:07 am ICT by IANSStockholm, Aug 20 (IANS) India’s Bindeshwar Pathak, the founder of the Sulabh sanitation movement, was Thursday awarded the Stockholm Water Prize, the most prestigious environmental recognition that has become akin to a Nobel Prize for environmental issues.
“Sanitation is humanity’s and the world’s most urgent and critical crisis of our times,” Bindeshwar Pathak told IANS here Thursday, and on a more optimistic note said, “However, it is not yet an unsolvable crisis but a huge challenge. It will require massive, dedicated and selfless labour to achieve the goal.”
Pathak received the award from Prince Carl Philip of Sweden.
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