The joint recipients of the 1998 Volvo Environment Prize are Professor Malin Falkenmark and Professor David Schindler for the outstanding work which each has carried out independently on freshwater quantity and quality respectively, both features of profound importance to human society world-wide.
The importance of their work becomes greater every year as the world water supply comes under ever increasing stress, threats which the laureates have long recognised, calling for environmentally sound action on water management.

The Prize Jury's Citation:
The Volvo Environment Prize for 1998 is awarded jointly to Professor Malin Falkenmark and Professor David Schindler for the outstanding work concerning the world's freshwater which each of them has carried out independently. Professor Falkenmark has made a penetrating analysis of how complex systems of hydrological and ecological factors interact to control the freshwater available world-wide. Professor Schindler has contributed very insights in the proccesses of eutrification and acidification of freshwater and of ways to counteract these procecesses.