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2017 University of Oklahoma International Water Prize Winner

Eric giving his plenary address

Eric Stowe is the Founder and CEO of Splash, a nonprofit organization that’s bringing safe water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) programs to over 400,000 children living in urban poverty across Asia and Africa every day. Splash’s work focuses extensively on bringing the resources of public, private and social sectors together to create scaled and lasting models of WASH success across some of the world’s largest and poorest cities. 

Since 2007, Mr. Stowe’s NGO has been spearheading a new model for international development—one that challenges the way the WASH sector thinks about transparency, philanthropy, collaboration and impact. Mr. Stowe’s ideas have been shared through publications in the Stanford Social Innovation Review, Forbes, CS Monitor, Wired, and more. Today, Mr. Stowe manages his growing organization of 70+ international staff from Seattle, Washington. 

Eric receives prize from Dean Joe Harroz

Eric Stowe accepted his prize Sept 19 at the 2017 OU International Water Conference Banquet held at the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History. 

Eric was selected to receive the prize from a group of stellar candidates, all of whom were experienced WaSH professionals. 

 

The 2017 Water Prize Selection Jury included:

Ned Breslin, former CEO of Water for People

Sarina Prabasi, CEO of WaterAid America

Afreen Siddiqi, professor at MIT and Harvard

James Smith, University of Virginia professor

Eric Wood, professor at Princeton University