Nirajan Dhakal, Lecturer in Water Supply Engineering at IHE Delft, was awarded the best paper oral presentation award for the paper entitled “Global water scarcity and desalination: Challenges and opportunities” at the International Conference on Desalination (InDACON-2018)- clean India technologies, role of desalination and swachh bharat mission. The conference was held in National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli, Tamilnadu, India from 20-21 April 2018.