Reed Elsevier Launches Environmental Challenge

The 2015 Reed Elsevier Environmental Challenge Is Launched, Calling for Innovative Proposals to Ensure Safe Water and Improved Sanitation for at Risk Communities in Developing Countries. The First Prize Winner Will Be Awarded $50,000 and the Second Prize Winner Will Receive $25,000

The 2015Reed Elsevier Environmental Challengewas launched today, calling for innovative proposals to ensure safe water and improved sanitation for at risk communities in developing countries. The winning projects will be announced in September 2015. The first prize winner will be awarded $50,000 and the second prize winner will receive $25,000 in addition to a feature in Water Research , an official journal of the International Water Association. All applicants are offered access to relevant material on Elsevier's ScienceDirect database, which contains more than 250,000 articles on environmental science, as well as LexisNexis Risk Solution's open source high performance computing (HPCC) resource, to allow the processing of large amounts of research data.

This is the fifth year of the Reed Elsevier Environmental Challenge, and will be marked by a special prize of $20,000 for a collaboration project involving past winners.

The Reed Elsevier Environmental Challenge was launched in 2011 to contribute to the Water for Life Decade, an initiative launched in 2005 by the UN General Assembly to halve the number of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation by 2015. According to the World Health Organisation and UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme, over 700 million people are without safe drinking water, while more than 2.5 billion people do not have adequate sanitation facilities. Poor access to safe water and sanitation contributes to health crises in many developing countries, and increasingly leads to violent conflict.

Dr Márcia Balisciano, Reed Elsevier's Director of Corporate Responsibility said, "Through the Environmental Challenge we help people working to address the fundamental need for clean water and sanitation by giving them access to cutting edge research in the field. We bring their important work to the attention of our expert judges and to a broad public." In 2015, Reed Elsevier will be extending awareness of the Environmental Challenge through a media partnership with theGuardian Global Development Professionals Network, which gives those working and interested in the field access to related comment, analysis, news and events.

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