Water Matters: Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals

About

Prof. Abhijit Mukherjee received his PhD degree from the University of Kentucky United States and is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Texas at Austin United States. He has served as the physical hydrogeologist at the Alberta Geological Survey in Canada and is currently a professor at the Department of Geology and Geophysics and the School of Environmental Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur India. Prof. Mukherjees main research area is hydrogeology including water pollution scarcity and governance. He is known globally for his studies on geological and human-sourced groundwater pollution and has done extensive work on delineating groundwater scarcity using field observations advanced computation and Artificial Intelligence techniques. He has received many distinctions including the highest award in Indian science. He is a fellow of the Geological Society of America the American Geophysical Union and the Royal Society of Chemistry. He has editorial roles in the Journal of Hydrology Applied Geochemistry Journal of Earth System Sciences Scientific Reports ES&T Letters ES&T Engineering and Water Resources Research. He is the editor of several books including Groundwater of South Asia and Global Groundwater: Source Scarcity Security Sustainability and Solutions.