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STAGE ONE

THE GEORGE BARLEY WATER PRIZE

Stage One of the competition was open to everyone, from top-tier universities doing cutting edge research to inventors working in their garage. 104 teams entered ideas, and offered their insights and inspirations on why they decided to embark on solving one of the most vexing challenges facing our planet.

In this stage the prize purse was $35,000 competitors were judged on

1. Performance indicators

2. Experiment description

3. Environmental outcome assessment

4. Overall presentation

Competitors were scored on

1. Phosphorus Removal

2. Environmental Sustainability
3. Overall Presentation

WATER PRIZE Blue.png

STAGE ONE

THE GEORGE BARLEY WATER PRIZE

Stage One of the competition was open to everyone, from top-tier universities doing cutting edge research to inventors working in their garage. 104 teams entered ideas, and offered their insights and inspirations on why they decided to embark on solving one of the most vexing challenges facing our planet.

In this stage the prize purse was $35,000 competitors were judged on

1. Performance indicators

2. Experiment description

3. Environmental outcome assessment

4. Overall presentation

Competitors were scored on

1. Phosphorus Removal

2. Environmental Sustainability
3. Overall Presentation

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GRAND

CHALLENGE

THE GEORGE BARLEY WATER PRIZE

The final ‘Grand Challenge’ stage of the George Barley Water Prize will be the robust testing of contestants under field conditions in the Greater Everglades to validate whether these leading technologies can remove phosphorus from the Kissimmee River or a comparable water body under real conditions at significantly lower cost than currently possible.

The 9 Pilot Phase teams will be narrowed down to the final four, who will move on to the final stage of the competition. Advancers will be announced in October 2018, in Toronto, during Canada’s Water Innovation Week. While Stage 3 asked teams to perform through snowmelt conditions, Stage 4 will require teams to demonstrate their ability to perform in subtropical conditions. Four teams will receive continuous flow, averaging 1 million gallons per day (gpd), with a variable spike of 4 million gallons per day, over the course of 14 months.

A Grand Challenge winner will have demonstrated endurance in a range temperatures, proving their technology is globally applicable. With the support of the State of Florida’s Department of Environmental Protection and the St. John’s River Water Management District, the Grand Challenge will be hosted on the banks of Lake Jesup, in Oviedo, Florida.

In this stage the prize purse is a

$10 Million Grand Prize

$250,000 Secondary Prize

$170,000 Phoenix Prize

competitors are judged on

1. TP results from grand stage testing

2. Cost calculations

3. Background water characteristics

4. Waste disposal plan

5. Environmental outcome assessment

6. By-product recovery income plan

7. Twenty-page scalability plan

Competitors were scored on

1. Phosphorus Removal

2. Environmental Sustainability
3. Overall Presentation

WATER PRIZE Blue.png

GRAND

CHALLENGE

THE GEORGE BARLEY WATER PRIZE

The final ‘Grand Challenge’ stage of the George Barley Water Prize will be the robust testing of contestants under field conditions in the Greater Everglades to validate whether these leading technologies can remove phosphorus from the Kissimmee River or a comparable water body under real conditions at significantly lower cost than currently possible.

The 9 Pilot Phase teams will be narrowed down to the final four, who will move on to the final stage of the competition. Advancers will be announced in October 2018, in Toronto, during Canada’s Water Innovation Week. While Stage 3 asked teams to perform through snowmelt conditions, Stage 4 will require teams to demonstrate their ability to perform in subtropical conditions. Four teams will receive continuous flow, averaging 1 million gallons per day (gpd), with a variable spike of 4 million gallons per day, over the course of 14 months.

A Grand Challenge winner will have demonstrated endurance in a range temperatures, proving their technology is globally applicable. With the support of the State of Florida’s Department of Environmental Protection and the St. John’s River Water Management District, the Grand Challenge will be hosted on the banks of Lake Jesup, in Oviedo, Florida.

In this stage the prize purse is a

$10 Million Grand Prize

$250,000 Secondary Prize

$170,000 Phoenix Prize

competitors are judged on

1. TP results from grand stage testing

2. Cost calculations

3. Background water characteristics

4. Waste disposal plan

5. Environmental outcome assessment

6. By-product recovery income plan

7. Twenty-page scalability plan

Competitors were scored on

1. Phosphorus Removal

2. Environmental Sustainability
3. Overall Presentation

WATER PRIZE Blue.png

STAGE ONE

THE GEORGE BARLEY WATER PRIZE

Stage One of the competition was open to everyone, from top-tier universities doing cutting edge research to inventors working in their garage. 104 teams entered ideas, and offered their insights and inspirations on why they decided to embark on solving one of the most vexing challenges facing our planet.

In this stage the prize purse was $35,000 competitors were judged on

1. Performance indicators

2. Experiment description

3. Environmental outcome assessment

4. Overall presentation

Competitors were scored on

1. Phosphorus Removal

2. Environmental Sustainability
3. Overall Presentation

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THE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION

Nicole Stott

Former NASA astronaut & author

Nicole Stott is an astronaut, aquanaut, artist, mom, and author of Back to Earth – What Life In Space Taught Me About Our Home Planet And Our Mission To Protect It. She creatively combines the awe and wonder of her spaceflight experience with her artwork to inspire appreciation of our role as crewmates here on Earth.

Nicole is a veteran NASA astronaut with two spaceflights and 104 days as a crewmember on both the International Space Station (ISS) and the Space Shuttle. Personal highlights of her time in space include becoming the 10th woman to perform a spacewalk, flying the robotic arm to capture the first free-flying HTV, painting a watercolor – now on display at the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum – working with her international crew on science that is all about improving life on Earth, and the life- changing view of our home planet. Nicole also is a NASA aquanaut. In preparation for space flight, she was a crew member on an 18-day saturation dive mission at the Aquarius undersea laboratory.

Nicole believes that the international model of peaceful and successful cooperation between the extreme environments of space and sea holds the key to the same kind of peaceful and successful cooperation for all of humanity here on Earth.

In her post-NASA mission, Nicole is a co-founder of the Space for Art Foundation, uniting a planetary community of children through the awe and wonder of space exploration and the healing power of art.

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