Water Sustainability and Predictive Modelling: Insights for Sustainable Water Management

Manish Kumar is a faculty member at Amity University, Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India. He earned his PhD in microbiology from ICAR-National Bureau of Agriculturally Important Microorganisms and R.D. University, Jabalpur. His expertise lies in plant–microbe interaction, microbial metagenomics, microbial diversity, and in silico vaccine design. He has qualified for the ICAR-NET and has held Research Associate (RA) and Senior Research Fellow (SRF) positions in ICAR and CSIR laboratories. He is a recipient of the SERB International Research Experience (SIRE) fellowship, awarded in 2022 by the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India, under which he worked with Dr. Marina Kalyuzhnaya, Professor in the Department of Biology at San Diego State University, United States. He serves as an editor and reviewer for several reputed microbiology journals, and he has organized numerous workshops and national and international conferences as organizing secretary and joint organizing secretary.

Vivek Agarwal is a 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 NASA’s 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 earth’s groundwater resources.

Professor. Vijay P. Singh is a globally renowned hydrologist and engineer, currently a Distinguished Professor and Regents Professor at Texas A&M University, where he holds the Caroline and William N. Lehrer Distinguished Chair in Water Engineering. With a career spanning decades, his contributions to surface and groundwater hydrology, hydraulics, irrigation, and water resources management are widely recognized. He has authored over 1,200 journal articles, numerous textbooks, and handbooks, significantly shaping the field. His research encompasses watershed modeling, climate change impacts, and entropy-based hydrologic theories. Prof. Singh's outstanding contributions have earned him prestigious accolades, including the Ven Te Chow Award, Ray K. Linsley Award, and the Norman Medal. Beyond research, he serves as Editor-in-Chief for key hydrology journals, further advancing the discipline.