An honorary Zanzibar Water Conference Young Researcher Award will be given to the best youth presenter (under the 35years) who will demonstrate exceptional oral presentation skills, insight of subject matter, articulation in response to questions etc. There will be a winner in each sub-theme thus making a total of four sub-winners from which the overall Zanzibar Water Conference Young Researcher Award Winner will be nominated based on a scoring criterion that will be developed by the Scientific Committee. An adjudication team will be available in all sessions to assess all youth presenters. There will also be an award for the Best Poster Youth Award as well of which will be determined through an adjudication process