River Basin Ecohydrology in the Indian Sub-Continent

Dr. Manish Kumar is an assistant professor at Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India. He earned his PhD in Environmental Engineering from the University of Tokyo, Japan. He has more than >130 international journal publications. He is the recipient of recognitions like Expert Panel for UNEP on antimicrobial resistance, Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC), Best Research Award at 4th IWA Asia Pacific Water Young Professional Conference, Global Change Research (GCR) Grant from Asia Pacific Network, DST young scientist grant, JSPS Research Fellowship, Centre of Excellence (CoE) Young Researcher Fund, and Linnaeus-Palme Grant from SIDA, Sweden. He renders the editorial service to several reputed journals. Prof. AL. Ramanathan is a professor in the School of Environmental Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. He has research interests in the fields of hydrogeochemistry of inland and coastal surface and ground waters and their resource management. Prof. Ramanathan has published more than a hundred papers in various peer-reviewed journals such as (Journal of Glaciology, J. Hydrology, Hydrological processes, Water resources, Estuarine coastal and shelf Sciences, Chemosphere, Bioresource Technology, Geoderma, etc). He has published more than seven books and several papers have been published as book chapters. Prof. Ramanathan has conducted eleven International /National workshops/training programs/conferences on the various theme of sheer importance. His work has been well supported by various national (UGC, DST, MoEF, MoWR, etc) and international funding organizations (SIDA, IFS, FORMAS, JAMSTEC, Indo-Australia fund-AIMS). He has completed collaborative projects with institutions from France, Sweden, Australia, and Russia. Sangam Shrestha is Associate Professor and Program Chair of Water Engineering and Management at the Asian Institute of Technology. He researches water resources management, climate change impact assessment, and groundwater assessment and management. Shrestha has published more than 100 papers in peer-reviewed journals and presented more than 60 conference papers. He is the co-author of “Groundwater Environment in Asian Cities: Concepts, Methods and Case Studies” (Elsevier) Dr. Keisuke Kuroda is an Associate Professor at the Department of Environmental and Civil Engineering, Toyama Prefectural University, Japan. He received his Ph.D. in Engineering from the University of Tokyo (2010). He was a postdoctoral research fellow at Eawag, Switzerland, and was a senior scientist at National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES), Japan. His research interests lie in the dynamics of various natural and man-made pollutants in water environments,bioassays for rapid pollutant identification, environmental modeling of radionuclides, water use scenario and accompanying health risk in an emergency, wastewater-based epidemiology, risk assessment of antiviral drugs. Interests include: subsurface geochemistry and mitigation technologies of contaminants of emerging concern (CECs), such as pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs), arsenic, and radionuclides. Recent research focuses include environmental pollution associated with disasters and their exposure to humans. He is serving as one of the editorial board members in Science of the Total Environment. Dr. Santanu Mukherjee is an Assistant Professor at the school of agricultural sciences, Shoolini University of Biotechnology and Management Sciences, Himachal Pradesh, India. He obtained his Ph.D. (magna cum laude) from the University of Bonn and worked as a guest scientist in FZJ, Juelich. He was a visiting researcher in Savannah River Ecological Laboratory, USA. He is the recipient of multiple accolades such as the EGU-Young Scientist Travel Award, ICAR international fellowship, Hutchison Young Scientists Foundation Awards, SERB-GOI Fellowships, GRIFA (Italian Pesticide Agency) grant, EU-COST action biochar grant, HiyoShi India-Japan Young leaf Environmental award-2020, etc. His research interest includes the fate of emerging contaminants, biogeochemical transformation of nutrients, and the role of dissolved and particulate organic matter in deciding contaminants fate in the environment. He is serving as a reviewer of many Scopus indexed journals.

• Section I: Diversities in the aquatic environment of Asia1. Diversities of Asian Aquatic Environment2. Broader and Specific Contrast of South Asian Waters3. Vulnerability and Resilience of Aquatic Systems in Asia4. Perspective review of state and strategies of aquatic system management in Indian subcontinent5. Perspective review of state and strategies of aquatic system management in South East Asia6. Curious Case of Water Management in the Arab World in the Western AsiaSection II: Strategies towards Sustainability: Levels of management7. Nano technological strategies of Aquatic Environment Management8. Biological strategies of Aquatic Environment Management9. Chemical strategies of Aquatic Environment Management10. Innovative Engineering Solutions of Aquatic Environment Management in AsiaSection III: Socio-ecological approaches (Case studies)11. Social and Ethical Engineering for the Aquatic Environmental Management12. Human health and Aquatic Environment: Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and Cost-Benefit Approach13. Policy, Guidelines and Regulation for Asia Water Management: Contrast of Developed and Developing Asian World14. Way forward for the Asia Contribution towards Global Water Sustainability: Stakes, Science, Sense, and Sensitization