SignOnSanDiego.com
6 Apr 2008
RANCHO SANTA FE – For years, Andrew Benedek felt like Don Quixote, he said.
Unlike the literary character famed for tilting at windmills, Benedek's unlikely crusade – to invent a better way of purifying water – ended in triumph.
His successes in the laboratory and the marketplace helped transform the way drinking water is treated throughout the world. In the process, the Rancho Santa Fe man won over a water industry that at one time doubted his conviction that membrane technology was the cheapest and best way to purify drinking water.
Benedek, 64, will travel to Singapore in June to accept the first Lee Kuan Yew Water Prize, presented by the government of Singapore for innovations in the field of water management. Benedek will receive a cash prize of about $217,000, along with a gold medallion.
An international committee of water-industry executives and academics selected him from a field of 39 nominees.
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