Berggren says Professor Rose has focused her professional life on water quality and public health. She is considered the world's foremost authority on Cryptosporidium, an organism found in the Great Lakes region.
"She can easily be described as water quality champion, she has the wise methods and have found the ways to track the movement of the pathogens through our nature and our infrastructure and through that to large extend prevent outbreak of diseases."
Berggren said Rose was one of the key persons responsible for setting WHO drinking water standards in 2004.
This can be considered as a great contribution because every year there are tens of thousands of lives, both adults and children, that are lost because of water borne diseases.
"She has been also very successful in translating the science into political decisions. So she has been doing very effective legislative lobbying from science into the WHO drinking water standards."
She is being honored for her contributions to global public health by assessing risks to human health in water, and for creating guidelines and tools for decision-makers and communities to improve global well-being.
The king of Sweden will present the prize to Rose on August 31st, during this year's World Water Week in Stockholm.
The announcement of the Stockholm Water Prize comes on World Water Day.
For CRI, this is Chen Xuefei reporting from Stockholm.
