Water Sustainability and Hydrological Extremes: Quantity, Quality, and Security

About

Manish Kumar is a professor and head of the Sustainability Cluster at School of Engineering UPES Dehradun India. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC). He earned his Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering from the University of Tokyo Japan. He has been the recipient of Water Advanced Research and Innovation (WARI) Fellowship Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) foreign research fellowship Brain Korea (BK)-21 post-doctoral fellowship Monbukagakusho scholarship Linnaeus-Palme stipend from SIDA Sweden and Research Fellowship from CSIR India and others. He supervised 8 Ph.D. thesis and published >150 international peer-reviewed journal papers and has 20+ years research/teaching experience with H-index =43 i10-index=124 with total citation (~7000)-Google Scholar. He is the core committee member of the International Water Association (IWA)-India Chapter. He is the one of the illustrious members of global collaboration on wastewater-based epidemiology of COVID-19. Vivek Agarwal is currently employed as Lecturer at the School of Engineering Northumbria University Newcastle United Kingdom. Before this he pursued his PhD from the University of Nottingham in Geospatial Environment Engineering. His thesis title was Study of groundwater properties and behavior using geospatial tools” and he was awarded the best PhD Thesis award” for his doctoral thesis. Dr. Agarwal has published 10+ international publications. He has a wide-ranging research interest in subjects related to civil engineering and interdisciplinary areas. His expertise is in remote sensing GIS water supply hydraulics fluid mechanics water quality and sewage pollution. He intends to combine NASAs GRACE gravity anomalies relating and InSAR land subsidence data relating them to groundwater quantity and quality variations. The aim of the research is to find solutions to the Climate Emergency by better understanding and managing the earths groundwater resources. Rachel Gomes is a Professor in Chemical and Environmental Engineering with research into intelligent resource use in process environments with a particular focus on waste/water treatment water reuse and process manufacturing for emerging pollutants and pollutant-to-product opportunities. She is head of the Food Water Waste (FWW) Research Group and leads the University of Nottingham Interdisciplinary Research Cluster Water Works. Prof. Rachel has a PhD from Imperial College London and received the Wellcome Trust Value in People Award and was one of the '100 women 100 visions' celebrating women scientists and engineers. Prof. Rachel has several funding portfolios from Research Councils Charities and Industry Prof. Rachel have expertise in process resilience circular economy wastewater treatment process manufacture analytics and modelling. She has been recognized with an MBE (Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)) for her services to research and to education in the 2022 Birthday Honors List. Durga Prasad Panday is a faculty at Sustainability Cluster UPES. He is a post-graduate in Water Resources Engineering from IIT Delhi. He has twice qualified the GATE exam with 99 percentiles. He has published several research articles including journal papers book chapters and conference proceedings. His area of interest is Water resources modelling Hydroclimatic extremes Game-theoretic conflict resolution techniques watershed management water quality modelling and GIS. He has a teaching experience of 7 years. He is actively engaged in consultancy works in water resources and quality modelling.