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R E S P O N S I B I L I T Y 35 Winners of Aqualia’s IV Journalism Award at the awards ceremony held at their headquarters in Madrid. One of the moments of the award ceremony. Juan Pablo Merino, Aqualia’s Communication and CSR Director, presented the second award to María Espeso (Diario de Ávila). For her part, María Espeso, a jour - nalist from Diario de Ávila, was awarded the second runner-up pri - ze for her report “The cutting-edge technology of the WWTP allows for the ‘recycling’ of water with a ‘total guarantee’”. Juan Pablo Merino, Aqualia’s Communication and CSR Director, presented Maria with his award. The prizes are endowed with a total of 6,000 euros, of which 3,000 go to the winner and 1,500 to each of the runners-up. In this fourth edition, the jury has recognized two Special Mentions. One to the work “The lack of water purification has already cost Spain 22 million”, by the journalist Manuel Planelles, for El País, for articula - ting a large portrait of the current national panorama on one of the most worrying issues for the water sector. The second Special Mention went to the work “La Laguna de la EDAR de Medina del Campo (Va - lladolid) ha atraído a una de cada cinco especies de aves que viven en España” (The Lagoon of the WWTP of Medina del Campo (Va - lladolid) has attracted one of every five species of birds living in Spain), by the journalist Eva González, for Europa Press. The jury highlighted the report for highlighting a com - plementary initiative to water ma - nagement in favour of biodiversity, giving visibility through its publica - tion in an agency and attracting the attention of other media. Stress the importance of the end-to-end management of the water cycle The Aqualia Journalism Award aims to stress the importance of the ma - nagement of the integral water cy - cle in daily life, thus increasing the culture of water as a scarce and precious good. The organization of the competition has highlighted the great variety and quality of the wor - ks submitted, 45 in total, revealing the importance of the water cycle for the development of societies and, therefore, the need to guarantee the environmental, financial and social sustainability of these services. At the end of the ceremony, Aqua - lia encouraged journalists from all over Spain to participate in the fifth edition of the contest, the rules of which will be published shortly. R E S P O N S I B I L I T Y