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HomeAlpiq GroupAbout AlpiqSustainability#prixalpiq

#prixalpiq – Winner 2024

For the fourth year running, the #prixalpiq has recognised two projects that promote sustainable water management with the support of municipalities in the Swiss canton of Valais. The municipality of Grimisuat has been chosen as the 2024 winner, with its project entitled “Grimisuat irrigation network – sustainable water storage and management”. The jury gave its “Coup de Cœur” to the association for water management and development planning in the Aletsch region, for its project entitled “Sustainable water supply planning in the Aletsch region”.

#prixalpiq roundtable “The circular economy: utopia or reality?” From left to right: Gaëtan Cherix (Director of the School of Engineering HES-SO Valais-Wallis), Antje Kanngiesser (CEO Alpiq), Laurent Horvath (Water Delegate for the Canton of Valais), Emilie Neveu (Head of the STREAM Laboratory HES-SO Valais-Wallis), Evann Buchwalder (Member of the student collective HES-Eco), Adèle Thorens Goumaz (Associate Professor of Public Policy and Ethics at HEIG VD) (Photo @gianlucacolla)
Link to the media release

Winner 2024

  • Project initiators: Municipality of Grimisuat
  • Project name: “Grimisuat irrigation network – sustainable water storage and management”
  • Aim: To meet its water supply challenges, the municipality has decided to approach the issue in an integrated way, seeking to anticipate water requirements and availability of the resource, and taking measures ranging from infrastructure repair to consumption optimisation
  • Reward: CHF 40,000
  • Contact: raphael.vuignermail@grimisuatweb.ch

Winner of hearts 2024

  • Project initiators: Association for water management and development planning in the Aletsch region
  • Project name: “Sustainable water supply planning in the Aletsch region”
  • Aim: To identify challenges in relation to drinking water, irrigation and tourism, and then to develop a comprehensive supply concept
  • Reward: CHF 10 000
  • Contact: infomail@aletsch-serviceweb.ch

#prixalpiq

For whom is it for?
Municipalities, companies, start-ups, research centres, students and freelancers with a sustainable water management project. The project must be sponsored by one or more Valais municipalities.

When is it open?
The winning projects will be announced on 29 October 2024.

How much is it?

Prizes worth a total of CHF 50,000 will be awarded for the implementation of concrete solutions in Valais municipalities.		Who is behind it?
The #prixalpiq is organised by Alpiq in partnership with the Association of Concession-Granting Municipalities of Valais.

Adrien Fournier, District Heating and Natural Gas, Sinergy
Winner of the #prixalpiq 2023

“The 'Sources and Climate Change' project will provide us with the foundations for the strategy we need to put in place to guarantee water supplies for future generations of Martigny's population”

Marie Arnoux, hydrogeologist, CREALP
Winner of the #prixalpiq 2023

“Thanks to #prixalpiq, we have the opportunity to develop robust tools for diagnosing future water resources that we will be able to put into practice through our collaboration with Sinergy.”

Martin Bodenmann, bureau Planax AG
Winner of the #prixalpiq 2022

“The #prixalpiq will help to expand our project to secure the drinking water supply in the municipalities of Visp, Brig-Glis and Lalden and to raise public awareness of the regional issues involved.”

Diego Wellig, President of the "Regional Water Supply South Ramp" association and Vice-President of the municipality of Naters
Winner of the #prixalpiq 2022

“There is an urgent need for action to secure our water supply in a sustainable way. To succeed, we must join forces, as our project 'Regional Water Supply South Ramp' shows.”

Yves Rey, Co-director, Cordonier et Rey
Winner of the #prixalpiq 2021

“Our project proposes concrete solutions to optimise the irrigation of the vineyards in the municipality of Salquenen and save water for local agriculture.”

Gilles Florey, President, Municipality of Salquenen
Winner of the #prixalpiq 2021

“The support of the #prixalpiq will allow us to justify and accelerate the launch of our irrigation project and, in this way, to respond in the short term to the problem of water shortage.”

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