Juan Carlos Borrero
Scientist Innovator
Juan Carlos Borrero Plaza has been nationally and internationally recognized for his scientific innovations. Juan Carlos has developed several research projects and has six provisional patents in the United States. He has worked for over 25 years on projects related to water, sustainable development, and renewable energy through technological innovations in water treatment plants, and considering regional, national, and international challenges. In 2006, Juan Carlos started his research to produce potable water out of polluted and salted water in a process utilizing wind. In 2009, he implemented this new technology in the most remote areas of Colombia, Rancheria Guayu, Guajira. After 6 years, the purification system has successfully and uninterruptedly worked without much specialized maintenance. Today, National and International entities implement this technology on a project known as Guajira without Thirt.
He was selected as a finalist of the Innovators of America 2016 Award, the most important award of Latin America. In 2016, Discover Magazine published his work. In October 2015, CM& produced a two episode primetime show about his work in the Guajira, Colombia. Juan Carlos was invited to Santiago de Chile on November 7 of 2015 for the conference Planet in Peace. He was also selected to present his work in the Second National Conference of Environmental Sciences in Colombia about his Aero-Desalinator Project. He was also invited to Switzerland to present his project in the Science Conference in Gutenburg, as well as to Israel to the World Fair of Agritrehc.
He won the Civil Order to the Environmental Merit in the Great Golden Cross Level Awarded by the Superior Council of the Ecologic and Environmental Organization as the highest tribunal of the civil society of Colombia in 2014. He was also postulated to the Prince Asturias of Science and Technology Award by the Republic of Colombia Congress and Colciencias in 2013. He received the National Award of the Scientific and Innovation Merit on 2012. He executed the masterly conference in the 60th birthday of Israel in 2008. And in 2006, he received the Great Merit Medal in Miami, United States, among many other achievements.