California Students Win U.S. Stockholm Junior Water Prize for Drought-Stress Detection Project

The Water Environment Federation has announced that John Benedict Estrada and Pauline Victoria Estrada, siblings from Clovis North High School in California, are the winners of the 2022 U.S. Stockholm Junior Water Prize for their project on conservation of irrigation water using a drought assessment tool powered by artificial intelligence. The Estradas won $10,000 and will represent the United States at the international competition in Stockholm, Sweden in August.Students from 45 states and Puerto Rico competed in the national finals held at the Colorado School of Mines. The Stockholm Junior Water Prize is a prestigious youth competition for water-related research and