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Detailed explanation-1: -The 2022 Stockholm Water Prize has been awarded to Wilfriend Brutsaert, a professor at Cornell University and a leading authority on terrestrial evaporation.

Detailed explanation-2: -Professor Emeritus Wilfried Brutsaert is named Stockholm Water Prize Laureate 2022 for groundbreaking work to quantify environmental evaporation.

Detailed explanation-3: -2022: Wilfried Brutsaert, for his groundbreaking work to quantify environmental evaporation, helping to make accurate predictions of the impact that climate change has on local rainfall patterns and water sources.

Detailed explanation-4: -UGent alumnus Wilfried Brutsaert awarded the Stockholm Water Prize 2022 Wilfried Brutsaert, em. prof. at Cornell University, renowned hydrologist and alumnus of the Faculty of Bioscience Engineering is awarded the prestigious Stockholm Water Prize for his innovative work on evaporation and groundwater storage.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Prize is awarded by SIWI in cooperation with the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and presented by H.M King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden, who is the official patron of the Prize. The winner of the Stockholm Water Prize is announced every year usually in March in conjunction with World Water Day.