Past Pro H2O Award Winners
Pro H2O Award Winners
2023
- Community Impact - Partners of Scott County Watersheds
- Young Adult Leadership - Brittany Costello, Miss Scott County
- Youth Education Program - Iowa Children's Water Festival
- Business Innovation - West O Beer, owners Matt & Michaela Matthiesen
- Impact Through Advocacy - Keenan Crow, One Iowa
- Lifetime Achievement - Susan Judkins
- Lifetime Achievement - Robin Fortney
Learn more about the 2023 Pro H2O award recipients.
2022
- Impact Through Advocacy - Save Bloody Run
- Business Innovation - Astig Planning, Coralville
- Youth Leadership - Lillian Hill, Johnston
- DMWW Think Downstream Award - Lee Tesdell, Polk County
- Lifetime Achievement - Paul Johnson (posthumous), Decorah
Watch their award videos.
2021
- Lifetime Achievement - Allen Bonini
- Impact Through Advocacy - Sikowis Nobiss, Great Plains Action Society
- Business Innovation - Continuum Ag
- Youth Leadership - Angela Messenbrink, Storm Lake High School
Watch their acceptance speeches.
2020
- Business Innovation – Wings2Water, Eastern Iowa Airport
- Youth Leadership – Iowa West High students Shreya Khullar and Caroline Mascardo for their stop motion film on algae blooms
Watch their acceptance speeches.
Read the press release.
2019
- Innovation Awards - Joe Bolick, Green Brewery Program Manager, and?Jenny Trent,?Waste Reduction Specialist, with the?Iowa Green Brewing Certification Program?at the?Iowa Waste Reduction Center?received honors?for the innovative and successful approach they launched in 2017 with the Green Brewing Certification program.
- Business Leader awards - Dave?Moore,?Director of Operations at?Big Grove Brewery and Rachel Beck?with?SingleSpeed Brewing Company for gaining Green Brewing Certification; Mollie Aronowitz?of?Peoples Company??
- Tenacity and Youth Leadership - Courtney Wolken, high school A.P. Biology teacher at?Newton Community School District, and?Steve Hopkins,?Nonpoint Source Coordinator with the IDNR, were honored for their work and leadership on a project with Cardinal Creek.
Read the press release.
2018
- Public Health award – Dr. Peter Weyer, University of Iowa
- Regenerative Ag award – Seth Watkins, Pinhook Farm
- Corporate Sustainability award – Rick Tollakson, Hubbell Realty
- Innovative Water Work award – Hannah Ray J
- Youth Leadership – 10 students from Oakridge Middle in Cedar Rapids