 In the early stages of my career, I was really looking at the whole issue of biomimicry, how to understand and capture the essential processes provided by nature, and then to try and integrate that into urban form, into urban architecture, but still preserving that integrity of the natural processes. For constructed wetlands, for instance, we all know that they do have a very strong cleansing property. But how do you capture the essential of that and repackage it into a high urban form? The award, I believe, has to do with how I then put in the effort to make sure that other disciplines are integrated into the delivery of that nature-based solution into cities. It is necessary to apply wisdom, greed from history and contemporary advanced technology, and to take action by collaboration with global society. We cannot keep our eyes closed like this and stay ignorant. We really need to take responsibility. There's no time to waste. The great thing about technology is that we can improve a lot of things with it. Everything that used to be analog, so now if we can access data or through the censoring, we can get all that data and we can see through the data. By applying machine learning and artificial intelligence, these systems can actually learn from the behaviors and that data and propose new solutions. It will be a lot more efficient in waste and also to improve the quality of the water if we can measure it with filtering like even in the homes and we can measure that quality of the data, bring all that data together, we will learn a lot from it. But I realize that there are a lot of other communities in Ghana that suffer water problems and we only ask a company to dwell on the urban areas. So what I did was to go into these villages, educate them on water and sanitation best practices and how they can address some of the challenges that they face in their communities before the government comes in to help. Everything was really good actually. I think the organizing of the conference was perfect and I really enjoyed everything, all the speakers and everything was really good. Congress is showing out where the future is and where we can go and as outlined, water is very important for whatever future development of human society and we are working on that and we are trying to bring there very creative and new solutions. Tokyo is amazing, I think having the comparison of Gothenburg and then the previous World Water Congress in Brisbane, I think IWA are really getting it right. I think it's bold, I think there's some risks but at the same time I think there's a lot to learn from Japan and it's exciting to see so many active members of IWA really committing.