
The 2025 Water Artisans of the Year Contest is now closed
Thank you for your entires to the 2025 Water Artisans of the Year contest. Winners and runners-up in the 2025 Water Artisans of the Year contest will be featured in the March/April 2026 Issue of Pond Trade magazine and online at pondtrademag.com.
Requirements for the 2025 Contest

- Submit a 100- to 300-word summary with 3 or 4 photos of the most impressive parts of the job – minimum of 3 images and max. of 4 – that you’ve completed in 2024 and 2025.
- No manufacturer or product name should appear in any photo or write-up.
- Eligible projects must have been completed between Nov. 1, 2024 and Nov. 1, 2025.
- Multiple entries for the same project in different CATEGORIES are NOT permitted.
- Open to professional installers only.
- Winners for each category (4) will be selected blindly by our judges. Winning entries will be published in the March/April 2026 issue of POND Trade magazine and posted on our website.
- The DEADLINE to enter is December 1, 2025 and payment information is below!
- See below for payment details!
PAYMENT INFO
- Each entry costs $25 (proceeds are benefiting the St. Jude’s Children Hospital) but NO entry is official until write-up, photos and money ae received.
- Click here to pay online or you can send a $25 check per entry payable to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital c/o POND Trade Magazine, 205D Rt. 22, Green Brook, NJ 08812.