Hydrologist Gunter Bloschl, a professor at the University of Bologna and the Vienna University of Technology, has been awarded the Stockholm Water Prize, an international award that is regarded as the " Water Nobel price" due to its high prestige. The prize—awarded by the Stockholm Water Foundation in collaboration with the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences—will be presented by King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden, the official patron of the award, on August 27 in Stockholm during World Water Week. As reported in the University of Bologna's magazine, Bloschl's work is characterized by the prediction and mitigation of flood risk, the development of water resource management strategies, and the investigation of hydrological processes at the regional level. Consequently, he is acknowledged as a pioneer in the field of hydraulic engineering. His analyses have significantly changed our understanding of water management and flood risk reduction in the context of global climate change. Bloschl's research has established him as the pioneer of a new, continually expanding scientific field: regional hydrological processes. He is also a co-founder of socio-hydrology, a new field of hydrology that considers the role of people in the water cycle.