Dr. Amit Kumar is a Professor of Hydrology and Water Resources at Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology. He obtained his M.Tech and PhD from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee and conducted his postdoctoral research at Hohai University, China. Dr. Kumar’s research spans the ecological health of aquatic habitats, water quality modeling, and water security practices to meet the Sustainable Development Goals. He has published five books, including Elsevier’s Climate Change in the Himalayas, and is an advisory board member for the Elsevier journal Ecological Indicators. Dr. Dafeng Hui is Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at Tennessee State University, Nashville, TN, USA. He received his Ph.D. degree in botany with an emphasis on ecology from the University of Oklahoma. His research interests lie in the broad areas of plant ecology, global change ecology, ecosystem ecology, and agro-ecology. Dr. Hui has published one book, several book chapters, and 200 papers in scientific journals including Nature, PNAS, Global Change Biology, Ecology, and New Phytologist. He has served as associate/academic editor for Plant Ecology, Journal of Plant Ecology, PLoSOne, The Crop Journal, and Frontier in Environmental Sciences, and on editorial boards of several other journals. Dr. Hui's research has been sponsored by the US NSF, USDA and DOE. Dr. Lin is a professor of School of Environment and Resources, Zhejiang University of Science and Technology. He graduated from Shenyang Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He has published 70 papers in Global Change Biology, Journal of Hazardous Materials, Soil Biology and Biochemistry, Science of The Total Environment, Geoderma, Catena, etc. Dr. Lin is currently the young editor of Biochar and Carbon Research, the editor of Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, and Frontier in Microbiology. Dr. Lin is mainly engaged in climate change and carbon and nitrogen cycle, agricultural waste recycling and soil remediation, and watershed ecology. His research is sponsored by 2 NFSC projects and international cooperation projects such as EU-sustainable farming.Prof. Tarun Kumar Thakur is a Professor and Head of Department of Environmental Science, Indira Gandhi National Tribal University (A Central University), Madhya Pradesh, India. He completed his PhD in 2006 from Indira Gandhi Krishi Vishwavidyalaya, India. His expertise and practical experience include bioremediation of heavy metals, microplastic pollutants in terrestrial ecosystems, riverine ecosystems, carbon neutrality in forestry etc. He has published more than 50 research and review articles in international journals of repute and completed 7 projects funded by Department of Science & Technology, MOEFCC, MPCST and MP State Biodiversity Board, India. Prof. Thakur is an honorary member of IUCN Commission on Ecosystem Management (CEM).

• 1. Advancements in Water Footprints Research for Achieving Sustainable Development Goals: An Overview2. Machine Learning-Based Estimation of Blue Water Footprints for Transboundary Water Management in the Arid Southwestern United States3. Water Footprint For Sustainable Practices4. Water Footprint for sustainability under SDG 6 for rejuvenation, conservation, and preservation of water resources5. Water footprint in Ganga River basin and its applications to Improve Ecological Services6. Environmental Footprints of Water—Concepts, Tools, Importance and Challenges7. The Water Footprint in Bioenergy and Other Primary Energy Sources8. Water Footprints of Hydropower Projects9. Evaluation of Water footprint under Dalbergia sissoo + Emblica offcinalis based Agroforestry model10. Water Footprint of Forest and Orchard Trees: A comprehensive review11. Water Footprint for Environmentally Friendly Farming Practices in Agroforestry: An overview12. Water footprint assessment and its importance in the ecosystem13. Water Footprint as a Tool for Integrated Water Resources Management14. Water Footprint of Agricultural Production and Policy Implications15. Water Footprint Assessment in Wastewater Treatment Plants: A Way’s Towards Practical Engineering Solution16. Water footprint in Sponge City: How sustainable is that?17. Chapter Structures, Challenges, and Future Perspectives of Water Footprint in Achieving the SDGs