The WASH Media Award competition highlights the role of the media in raising awareness and influencing policy on water supply, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) issues. The initiative, first launched in 2002, recognises journalists from developing countries whose work has a proven impact on improving WASH services in their country or locality.

World Water Week Activities
The winners of the WASH Media Awards will be recognised during the closing session for the 2008 World Water Week. Prizes will be awarded in each of the three competition languages, English, Spanish and French, with an additional prize awarded for the best entry that deals specifically with issues related to gender and water, sanitation or hygiene.

The winning journalists, and their winning entries are:
• Winfred Onyimbo, Trans World Radio, Kenya
"Disease in bottle"
• Cátia Toffoletto, CBN - Radio São Paulo, Brazil
"Water, the waste condemning São Paolo"
• Claudine Efoa Atohoun, Office of Radio and Television, Benin "Dassa, the commune of the 41 hills"
• Salome Gregory, Mwananchi Communications Limited, Tanzania
"This is Same, where fetching water means children miss classes"