UK Project to Reduce PFAS Pollution is Awarded Stockholm Junior Water Prize

Christopher Whitfeld and Wenqi (Jonathan) Zhao from the United Kingdom received the prestigious Stockholm Junior Water Prize 2024 for their work on PFAS pollution in the Thames Basin. HRH Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden presented the winners with their award during a ceremony at World Water Week in Stockholm. PFAS pollution is a growing concern worldwide. Focusing on the Thames Basin in the United Kingdom, where there are no equitable solutions to the problem, Whitfeld and Zhao developed a geospatial neural network, predicting PFAS values to within 10% of experimentally validated values. For this, they were announced the winners of the