Annabelle M Rayson -a student from Canada has received the prestigious 2022 Stockholm Junior Water Prize for her research on how to treat and prevent harmful algae blooms.
- Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden announced the winner during a ceremony at World Water Week in Stockholm.
- World Water Week is a conference on global water issues, which started on August 23, 2022 and continued till September 1.
- Stockholm Junior Water is an international competition where students aged 15 to 20 years present solutions to major water challenges.
- Harmful algae bloom plague aquatic ecosystems around the world. They impact water quality and ecosystem diversity, cause dead zones and cost the fishing and tourism industries millions of dollars.