King of Sweden to honour world’s leading flood expert with 2025 Stockholm Water Prize
On Wednesday 27 August, His Majesty King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden will present the 2025 Stockholm Water Prize to Professor Günter Blöschl of Austria at Stockholm City Hall during World Water Week.
Professor Blöschl is celebrated as the world’s leading flood hydrologist. Hisresearch has revealed why floods happen differently across regions and howclimate change, land use, and human decisions together shape risk. Hisgroundbreaking insights have not only changed science but also savedlives—most recently during the devastating 2024 Central European flood, whenhis