indo-uk workshop on water quality – source...

Indo-UK Workshop on Water Quality – Source Protection

Jointly organised by James Hutton Institute, Scotland & Interdisciplinary Centre for Water Research, Indian Institute of Science,

Bangalore30th March 2016 to 1st April 2016Golden Jubilee HallDept of civil Engineering, IIsc.

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Workshop Contact

The workshop is being convened by the James Hutton Institute and will be led by Professor Bob Ferrier, Director of Research Impact at The James Hutton Institute. The workshop organiser is:

Dr Richard Allan+44 (0)1382 [email protected]

Contents Page Number

Workshop Contact 1

Workshop Aims 2

Workshop Structure 2

Logistics 2

Expenses 2

Presentations 2

Delegates 3

Ideas for Discussion 3

Agenda 4

Delegate Research Interests 6

Workshop Aims

This workshop aims to bring together leading freshwater and terrestrial scientists from across India and the United Kingdom to explore the future scientific needs and challenges which will underpin the sustainable management of water resources in India. The workshop is intended to develop ideas for future scientific and technological collaborations between the UK and India which will address key knowledge gaps in our understanding of water resources management and source protection. During the planned 3 day workshop the group will be particularly focused on water quality and water source protection. There is recognition that there is a significant hydro cli-matic variation across India and there is a need to define monitoring and quality standards that can accommodate such variation while ensuring that water quality and quantity is adequately safeguarded.

Workshop Structure

The workshop will be structured around the five key areas where scientific research is needed to underpin the future development and sustainable management of a number of catchments in India. The topics for the workshop are:

1) Water Quality2) Diffuse pollution assessment3) Managing diffuse pollution4) Sustainable rural communities5) Low-cost treatment and waste management

Each topic will form the focus of a workshop session, comprising presentations from Indian and UK experts and an interactive discus-sion amongst delegates. Discussion session will consider the scientific needs and challenges.

Logistics

The workshop will commence at 12:00 IST on Wednesday 30th March 2016 and finish at 14:00 IST on Friday 1st April 2016. The workshop will be held in the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.Institute of Science, CV Raman Ave, Bangalore, Karnataka, 560 012, India Telephone: +91-80-2393 2004

Tea, coffee and lunches will be provided during the course of the workshop in the meeting rooms. Conference dinners will be provided in the evening.

Expenses

For UK delegates, the James Hutton Institute will cover expenses in relation to: travel (train/flights) to Bangalore and accommodation in the Taj West End Hotel for the nights of Wednesday 30th March and Thursday 31st March 2016. Other expenses will not be covered and delegates should settle their own accounts for any additional costs charged to hotel rooms, these will not be covered by the James Hutton Institute.

Presentations:

Invited topic speakers have been asked to give 20 minute presentations outlining:

a) Their vision for the future of water source protection b) The background to the key topic issuesc) Recent scientific developments in their area of expertised) The science required nowto support catchment managemente) The science required in future.

Presentation facilities will be available and speakers are asked to bring their presentations on USB flash drives in PowerPoint 2013 (or earlier) format. Speakers are asked to keep to a maximum of 20 slides and ensure their presentations stay within to the maximum permitted time of 20 minutes.

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Name Institution

Prof. Bob Ferrier James Hutton Institute, UK

Dr Richard Allan James Hutton Institute, UK

Dr Mads Troldborg James Hutton Institute, UK

Dr Alison Parker Cranfield University

Mr Barry Greig The Scottish Government, UK

Prof. Alan Jenkins Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, UK

Prof. Mark Bailey Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, UK

Prof. Edward Tipping Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, UK

Dr Andrew McKenzie British Geological Survey

Prof. Graham Mills Portsmouth University

Prof. Pradeep Mujumdar Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, India

Prof. Sekhar Muddu Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, India

Prof. M. Sudhakar Rao Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, India

Prof. M.S. Mohan Kumar Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, India

Prof. Ligy Philip Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India

Prof. Sudha Goel Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India

Prof. Chakrapani Govind Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India

Dr. Laurent Ruiz Indian Institute of Science

Mr Sunil Kumar UK Science and Innovation Network

Prof. Arun Kumar Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India

Mr Raj Patra Ecosystem Services for Poverty alleviation (ESPA) Programme

Ideas for Discussion

We hope the workshop will include some active discussion sessions. To help energise these discussions, delegates may like to consider the following issues/questions ahead of the workshop:

1. How is the water supply demand balance changing across India? What are the influencing factors (for example, climate change, farming, urban creep, industrial change and economic growth)?2. How is water quality changing? What are the main contributing factors that influence raw water quality deterioration?3. What is the existing nutrient load (as N and P) within raw water and how does this impact on water quality, water security and the environment/ecosystem?4. How does activity in the catchments influence and effect the raw water quality and security? Do we know enough about how such activities impact on water security, quality and ultimately the protection of public health?5. What water quality monitoring programs are in place in India and the UK? What are the similarities and differences? Where are the knowledge gaps in terms of understanding the water quality and the source of contaminants?6. What coverage of wastewater treatment is in place? How can improvements in wastewater treatment at a local and national level safeguard raw water sources?7. What management practises are in place to address diffuse pollution issues? What modelling needs to be done and to what scale (Catchment and or farm scale)?8. What are the consequences for future land management and ecosystem services?9. How can the sustainable rural community approach support local resource management?

By exploring these questions and others, the workshop will aim to identify strategic challenges for water management research in India over the next 10, 20 and 30 years. Delegates are asked to consider the feasibility of meeting such scientific priorities and what is needed to enable the required research.

Following the event, we hope to publish a synthesis of the conclusions. This will be discussed further during the workshop.

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Delegates

12:00-13:30 Arrival, Registration and Lunch

13:30-13:40 Welcome and Introduction to the WorkshopSpeaker: Sekhar Muddu /Bob FerrierChair: Alan Jenkins (Rapporteur: Mark Bailey)

13:40-14:00 Understanding Water Quality: What, Why, When and Where?Speaker: Bob Ferrier

14:00-14:30 Presentation Topic: Water Quality Issues in IndiaSpeaker: Sudha Goel

14:30-15:00 Discussion

15:00-15:30 Tea

Session 1: Water qualityChair: Ed Tipping (Rapporteur: Harry Dixon )

15:30-15:50 Presentation Topic: UK’s National Surface Flow Archive and Harmonised Monitoring Scheme -what have we learnt?Speaker: Alan Jenkins

15:50-16:10 Presentation Topic: Advances in monitoring using passive samplingSpeaker: Graham Mills

16:30-17:45 Discussion of Session 1 Vision. Focused on:

1) Priority science challenges2) Areas of possible UK-India collaboration

Chair to report back in Wrap-up Session on Day 3.

17:45 Close

19:30 Dinner

Day 1: Wednesday 30th March 2016Room: G J Hall, Department of Civil Engineering

Agenda

08:45-09:00 Arrival

Session 2: Diffuse pollution assessmentChair: Pradeep Mujumdar (Rapporteur: Andrew McKenzie)

09:00-09:20 Presentation Topic: Understanding the link between biogeochemical cycles and water qualitySpeaker: Ed Tipping

09:20-09:40 Presentation Topic: Biogeochemistry of Kumaun Himalayan Lakes:Speaker: Chakrapani Govind

09:40-10.40 Discussion of Session 2 Vision. Focused on:



10.40-11:00 Coffee

Day 2: Thursday 31st March 2016Room: G J Hall, Department of Civil Engineering

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Session 3: Managing diffuse pollutionChair: Graham Mills (Rapporteur: Alan Jenkins)

11:00-11:20 Presentation Topic: Ground Water Quality: monitoring and modellingSpeaker: Andrew McKenzie

11:20-11:40 Presentation Topic: Pollutant modelling in groundwaterSpeaker: Mads Troldborg

11:40-12:00 Presentation Topic: The Kabini basin a case studySpeaker: Sekhar Muddu




13:00-14:00 Lunch

Session 4: Sustainable rural communitiesChair: Bob Ferrier (Rapporteur: Barry Greig)

14:00-14:20 Presentation Topic:Sustainable Rural Communities a holistic approachSpeaker: Richard Allan

14:20-14:40 Presentation Topic: Impacts on water quality in rivers from Hydropower projects Speaker: Arun Kumar

14:40-1500 Presentation: Modelling Agricultural diffuse pollution is Indian watersheds; some considerationsSpeaker: Laurent Ruiz




15:45-16:00 Tea

Session 5: Low cost treatment and waste managementChair: Andrew McKenzie (Rapporteur: Graham Mills)

16:00-16:20 Presentation Topic: Point source protection in rural areas: global lessons Speaker: Alison Parker

16:20-16:40 Presentation Topic: Diagnosing the Water Quality Problem in the Vrisha bhavathy Watershed in BangaloreSpeaker: Dr Priyanka Jamwal

16:40-17:00 Presentation Topic: Use of bio-barrier technology for nitrate removal from pit toilet leachateSpeaker: Sudhakar Rao




17:45 Close

19:30 Workshop Dinner and reception at the Taj West End

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09:00-09:15 Arrival

09:15-09:35 Presentation Topic: Sustainable Waste Management: Role of decentralized onsite systemsSpeaker: Ligy Philip

Session 6: Emerging Policy & OpportunitiesChair: : Mohan Kumar (Rapporteur: Richard Allan)

09:35-10:35 Presentation Topic: Emerging policy and collaboration opportunities (short presentations)Speaker: Barry Greig, Sunil Kumar, Raj Patra



Chair to report back in Wrap-up Session.

11:00-11:30 Coffee

Day 3: Friday 1st April 2016Room: G J Hall, Department of Civil Engineering

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Wrap-up and CloseChair: Bob Ferrier

11:30-12:15 Conclusions from workshop sessionsSpeakers: 5 minutes feedback presentation (1 slide) from each sessionRapporteurs followed by discussion

12:15-12:34 Water quality management - agreeing actions for moving forward our collaborationSpeaker: Mark Bailey

12:45-13:00 Closing RemarksSpeaker: Bob Ferrier & Sekhar Muddu

13:00 Lunch

14:00 Close

I am an environmental engineer with interest and expertise in environmental risk assessment, uncertainty estimation and modelling of environmental systems. I obtained a PhD on “Risk assessment models and uncertainty estimation of groundwater contamination” from the Technical University of Denmark. Methodologically, I have been working with many different types of modelling approaches, including multimedia models, stochastic modelling, and Bayesian statistical and geostatistical methods. I have applied these methodologies to various environmental problems, including modelling of contaminant fate and transport in soil and groundwater systems, risk assessment of soil and groundwater pollution, and evaluation and spatial mapping of the risk of priority soil hazards.

Dr Mads Troldborg Information and Computational Sciences, , James Hutton Institute, Aberdeen, [email protected]

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Richard has worked in industry for over 23 years and has held a number of senior management positions before becoming Chief Scientist at Scottish Water and then Managing Director at Scottish Water Horizons. Richard has a broad range of experiences from overseeing Scottish Water`s Scientific services, drinking water quality programme and public health protection. More recently Richard has led a number of policy research projects focused on sustainable rural communities in Scotland as part of CREW (the Centre for Expertise in Water). Richard currently holds the post of Chairman of the Strategic Advisory Board: Environment at CEN and attends the CEN Technical Board.

Dr Richard Allan MDT Research Fellow: sustainable water management, The James Hutton Institute, Dundee, UK [email protected]

Bob Ferrier is Director of Research Impact at the James Hutton Institute and is responsible for the development and delivery of the Institute’s research portfolio, associated knowledge exchange, and income generation strategies. He is also the Director of the policy-research Centre of Expertise for Waters (CREW). He has over 30 years’ experience in water resources management in particular the hydrological, hydrochemical and ecological consequences of environmental change. His own research interests centre on the potential role of policy and land use change on water resources and the development of systems based approaches and frameworks for sustainable management. He has been a champion for catchment management and in particular, addressing the global challenge of diffuse pollution.

Prof. Bob Ferrier Director of Research Impact, James Hutton Institute, Aberdeen, [email protected]

Delegate Research Interests

Alan Jenkins is Deputy Director of CEH and Director of CEH’s Water and Pollution Science. Alan’s research focus is hydrochemical modelling, in particular the development of models for predicting the impact of air pollution on soils and surface waters. He worked for many years to develop the MAGIC model and this now forms a focus for the assessment of the efficacy of international agreements on emission reductions. His wider interests include diffuse pollution and the transport of chemicals from soils to surface waters. Alan is Chair of the UK Committee for National and International Hydrology, Head of the UK Delegation to the UNESCO International Hydrology Programme, Hydrological Adviser to the UK Government with the World Meteorological Organization.

Prof. Alan Jenkins Deputy Director and Director of Water & Pollution Science, Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Wallingford, [email protected]

I currently work mainly by modelling, with recent or ongoing projects on chemical speciation (metal and proton binding by natural organic matter), acidity and metals in catchments, mercury behaviour and toxicity in soils, soil carbon turnover (using radiocarbon data), the transport and fate of soil dissolved organic matter, metal and proton toxicity in the field (using quantile regression), and coupled plant-soil carbon-nitrogen responses to nitrogen deposition. I have also led field and laboratory research into the properties of dissolved organic matter in surface waters.

Prof. Edward Tipping Biogeochemist, Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Wallingford, UK, [email protected]

Mark’s research focus has been the development and application of molecular genetics and metagenomics to study the underlying principles of microbial ecology, microbial community dynamics, ecosystem function, habitat-regulated gene expression, the the functional activity of communities and the evolutionary relevance of the horizontal gene pool. Key research interests include biogeochemical cycling, functional diversity and microbial metagenomics in the study of soil-plant-microbe interactions, and the wider application of molecular ecology in the environmental sciences. Broader interests include the general ecology of systems and multi-scale trophic interactions, and the role and relevance of biodiversity in sustaining our planet.

Prof. Mark Bailey Director, Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Wallingford, [email protected]

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Dr Alison Parker is engaged in research and teaching at Cranfield University in water and sanitation in low income countries. Alison Parker currently has a large research activity in technologies for urban sanitation. She is leading Cranfield University’s response to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s challenge to “Reinvent the Toilet”, using novel membrane technology to treat human waste on-site. She is also involved in developing and testing technologies to treat faecal sludge from pit latrines and container toilets including anaerobic digestion and pyrolysis. This involves characterising the waste and optimising its reuse. She is working at both ends of the technology development process - helping to develop a novel technology for EPSRC and in testing “off the shelf” systems for WSUP.

Supporting stakeholders to provide safe water supplies is another research focus through Alison’s work in WASHTech project, a European project aiming to help African decision makers decide which water and sanitation technologies to use in their projects and Community Water Plus, an AusAID funded project aiming to understand what support communities in India need to manage their water supplies.

She also has research students working on Water Safety Plans in Malaysia, Nigeria, Jamaica, India and Uganda and on the transition of urban communities between informal supplies and piped systems in Kenya. She is the Course Tutor of the MSc in Community Water and Sanitation.

Dr Alison Parker Cranfield University, Bedford, UK,[email protected]

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Harry Dixon is a Senior Hydrologist at CEH specializing in the measurement, management and assessment of hydrometric data. Harry is Secretary to the UK Committee for National and International Hydrology and has an active involvement in water-related intergovernmental hydrology programmes under the UN framework, primarily with the WMO and UNESCO. Through this work he has experience of international-scale research and operational projects and policy development. Harry’s research interests span hydrometry, hydrometric data processing and analysis. He is Head of the UK’s National River Flow Archive and has extensive experience of working in the UK and internationally on projects related to the collection and management of hydrological data and information.

Dr Harry Dixon Senior Hydrologist, Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, [email protected]

I am an analytical chemist and engineer. My research interests are in the use of gas chromatography and mass spectrometry techniques in biomedical and environmental analyses and the development of novel sample preparation methods in analytical chemistry. My more recent research has been directed towards the development of passive sampling devices to monitor water quality and have designed and patented the Chemcatcher sampler. This device is now being used worldwide for the measurement of both organic and inorganic pollutants in the aquatic environment. I am involved in a number of academic, governmental and industrial collaborations across Europe in respect of monitoring water quality.

Prof. Graham Mills Portsmouth University, St Michael’s Building, White Swan Road, Portsmouth, [email protected]

PradeepMujumdar is currently serving as a Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at IISc Bangalore and as Chairman, Interdisciplinary Centre for Water Research. His area of specialization is Water Resources with a focus on climate change impacts on hydrology/water resources, statistical downscaling of GCM outputs, urban flooding, planning and operation of large scale water resources systems, and uncertainty modelling. His recent research contributions include detection and attribution of hydrologic change, development of downscaling models, uncertainty combination in climate change impacts and reservoir operation for adaptation to climate change. He has served as the Chairman of the Water Resources Management section of the International Association for Hydro-Environment Engineering and Research (IAHR), and as a reviewer for the Assessment Report 5 (AR5) of the IPCC.

Prof. Pradeep Mujumdar Professor, Department of Civil Engineering and Chairman, Interdisciplinary Centre for Water Research, Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, [email protected]

Sekhar Mudduis a Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at IISc Bangalore. His research interests include analysis of flow and reactive transport in groundwater systems, field-scale experiments in watershed hydrology, hydroclimatic & anthropogenic controls on groundwater, numerical methods, geospatial & geophysical methods, optimization & inverse problems, and modelling of environmental hydraulic processes.

Prof.Sekhar Muddu Professor, Department of Civil Engineering and Interdisciplinary Centre for Water Research, Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, [email protected]

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Prof. Philips is currently working as Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute ofTechnology, Madras. Previously she has held positions as Associate Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, and Madras; Assistant Professor in Department of Civil engineering, IIT Madras; Assistant Professor in Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur; and as a Senior Project Engineer at IIT Kanpur in the UNICEF sponsored project on Defluoridation of Water in Rural Areas Using Activated Alumina Technology. Prof Philips has a proven track record and interest in:

• Bioremediation of contaminated soils, air and water with heavy metals, pesticides and other hazardous organic compounds• Water treatment and Rural Water Supply• Air pollution monitoring, modelling and control• Domestic and Industrial wastewater treatment with emphasis on wastewater reuse and recycling

Prof. Ligy Philip Professor, Department of Civil EngineeringIndian Institute of Technology, [email protected]

Dr. Sudhakar M. Rao is a Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering and is also presently the Chairperson of the Department. He is an Associate Faculty, Center for Sustainable Technologies, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.

His research areas include, groundwater geochemistry, remediation of contaminated drinking water, hazardous waste management and re-use of waste materials. He has published about 85 papers in leading International Journals and supervised 19 Ph.D. and 7 M.Sc. (Engineering) dissertations in the broad area of Geoenvironmental engineering.

He has been a visiting scientist at McGill University, Ryerson University, Canada and Cardiff University, UK. He has handled/handling several sponsored research projects in Geoenvironment engineering funded by Department of Science and Technology, Bureau of Research in Nuclear Sciences, Atomic Energy Regulatory Board, Ministry of Drinking Water and Private Funding Agencies to examine diverse problems of monitoring contaminated groundwater, impact of anthropogenic contamination on groundwater quality, develop technologies to remediate contaminated groundwater, develop clay barriers to contain toxic wastes and re-use of hazardous waste in civil engineering applications.

He has developed a patent for fluoride removal from contaminated drinking water using magnesium oxide (IISc method) and has developed sustainable technologies for removal of nitrate and hexavalent chromium from contaminated drinking water. The IISc method of defluoridation was practiced in Kolar and Tumkur Districts of Karnataka, Lakshmangarh District, Rajasthan and in Anantpur District, Andhra Pradesh during the period 2007 to 2014. Recently he has developed a bio-barrier technology for removing nitrates

from pit toilet leachate that is being demonstrated in Mulbagal town in Karnataka.

Prof. M. Sudhakar Rao Professor & Chairman, Department of Civil EngineeringIndian Institute of Science Bangalore, [email protected]

Laurent Ruiz is Senior scientist at INRA (Institute National de la Recherche Agronomique), UMR 1069 SAS Rennes, France. He is agro-hydrologist, with competences on environmental observatory management (Head of ORE Agrhys) and agro-hydrological modelling (TNT2, ETNA, COMFORT, AICHA…). His interests span temperate and tropical (Africa, India) conditions. He has developed collaboration with Indian partners since 2002, and stayed in India through IRD deputation in 2002-2005 and since 2014. He has published about 50 papers (WOS, IF 17, Researcher ID: C-3090-2011), and he is Associate Editor of Hydrological Sciences Journal (Journal of the AIHS). He has experience in managing trans-disciplinary projects involving stakeholders in agricultural watersheds and he is the Co-PI (with Pr M Sekhar, IISc Bangalore) of the CEFIPRA AICHA project (2013-2016).

Dr. Laurent Ruiz Indo-French Cell for Water SciencesIndian Institute of Science, Bangalore, [email protected]

Govind Chakrapani (B1963) studied at IIT Bombay, Mumbai (M.Sc. Applied Geology) and Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi (M.Phil. and Ph.D. in Environmental Sciences) and is presently working as Professor of Geology & Environment in the Department of Earth Sciences at IIT Roorkee.

His research interests include, Water flow and sediment loads of Himalayan Rivers, Lakes Biogeochemistry, Urban Hydrogeology and Water-rock interactions.He has supervised 13 PhD theses and published 70+ journal papers.

Prof. Chakrapani Govind Professor, Department of Earth SciencesIndian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, [email protected]

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M S Mohan Kumar is working in the research areas: Groundwater, Vadose zone hydrology, Multiphase flow systems, Urban water networks, Irrigation systems and Small experimental watersheds. He has been involved in several international as well as national projects in both research and consultancy mode. He has guided many PhDs and Masters students and published many papers in international and national journals. He is a fellow of IWWA and member of several professional bodies. He has been recipient of several prestigious fellowships such as Alexander Von Humboldt fellowship, INSA-JSPS fellowship. He has been awarded Amulya and Vimala Reddy award by IISc for sustainable development, Prof N Modak memorial award by Institution of Engineers (India) and IBM faculty award. He is a Visiting Professor to ILMR, Saga University, Japan and to Department of Earth Sciences, Utrecht University, The Netherlands. He is currently Professor in Department of Civil Engineering, and Associate Faculty in CiSTUP, RBCCPS, ICWaR, IISc. He is also the Chairman of Indo-French Cell for Water Sciences at IISc and Former Hon. Secretary, Karnataka State Council for Science and Technology. He is a member of several technical committees of Government on drinking water and irrigation systems both at state level as well as at Central level.

Prof. M. S. Mohan Kumar Professor, Department of Civil Engineering and Interdisciplinary Centre for Water ResearchIndian Institute of Science Bangalore, [email protected]

Dr Priyanka Jamwal Centre for Environment and Development, [email protected]

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Prof. Sudha Goel Associate Professor, Civil Engineering DepartmentIndian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, [email protected]

Dr. Priyanka Jamwal is an Environmental Researcher, who currently is a Fellow at Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE), her work focuses on identification of contaminant sources in surface water bodies, modeling the fate and transport of contaminants in urban hydrological systems and assessing the risk to human health due to exposure to contaminants. Her empirical work has focused on quantification of microbial load from point and non-point sources in urbanizing watersheds. In addition to this, she has also evaluated the efficiency & efficacy of various wastewater treatment technologies. Currently she is working in an IDRC funded project focused on estimating trace metal loads in the urban streams, identifying the trace metal sources in urban catchments and assessing the risk to human health on exposure to trace metals. She is also working on simulation and prediction of free chlorine in real water distribution systems.

Sudha Goel is an Associate Professor in IIT Kharagpur. Her research interests include water quality and treatment, solid and hazardous waste management, and environmental risk assessment. Prof Goel is a member of the Institution of Engineers (India) as well add a member of the American Water Works Association and is a senior member of the APCBEES. Her current project include “Developing suitable pedagogical methods for various classes, intellectual calibres and research e-learning” as well as “Collection and Characterization of environmental quality of water, wastewater, air, solid waste and soil.

Dr Arun Kumar Professor at Alternate Hydro Energy CentreIndian Institute of Technology, [email protected]

Dr Arun Kumar, Professor at Alternate Hydro Energy Centre, Indian institute of Technology, Roorkee since 1981, a civil engineer with specialization in water resources and hydropower by education is working since 1981. He graduated from IIT Roorkee, post graduated from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, diploma studies in Hydropower development from NTNU Norway and PhD from IIT Roorkee. He has been awarded MNRE Chair Professor (Renewable Energy) by IIT Roorkee since 2013.

He served as CLA for Hydropower on Special Report on Renewable Energy Sources for IPCC – working group III during 2009–11. He has been appointed by Government of India as the independent Director on the Govt of India owned board of NHPC Ltd. He has carried out CIA studies of hydropower projects on river Ganga, Yamuna and Satluj in recent years. He appraises the project proposals on pollution abatements and RFD works for MOEFCC, Government of India and National Mission for Clean Ganga regularly. He has over 34 year experience of R&D, extension and teaching SHP and environmental management of river and lakes. He has travelled widely in nationally and internationally. He contributes in the field of hydropower and environmental Management of Rivers and lakes regularly.

He led multidisciplinary expert team of the Institute working for environmental management of water bodies like rivers and lakes and renewable energy development. A state of art R&D laboratory for hydraulic turbine and real time simulator for hydropower station are established by him. He is responsible and led the development of 27 national standards/ guidelines/manual for SHP development.

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