Alison Bick of Short Hills, N.J., has won the 2011 international Stockholm Junior Water Prize (SJWP), the most prestigious international competition for water-related research, during a competition held in conjunction with World Water Week in Stockholm, Sweden.Bick worked for four years on her project, “Development and Evaluation of a Microfluidic Co-Flow Device to Determine Water-Quality,” which combines micro-fluidic devices, cell phones, and chemical indicators to test water quality. Her innovative method accurately assesses the bacteria content of water and is significantly faster and up to 200 times less expensive than standard testing procedures.According to a press release issued on Aug. 23
