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Ashok K. Keshri is an Associate professor of Water resources Engineering and Geoinformatics in the Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of technology Delhi. He ahs earlier worked as Scientist at National Institute of Hydrology, Roorkee and in North Eastern Electric Power Cooporation, Shillong and at IIT Kanpur for short periods. He has Postdoctoral fellow and Visiting Researchers at Kongju National University, Korea during 2001-202, and has also visited Japan, USA and Denmark. He specializes in hydrology, grounder water flow and pollution modeling, remote sensing & GIS, Hydrologic simulation & design, FEM & optimization, environmental & river hydraulicsa, hazard & risk assessment and project economics. Dr. keshri has published more than 120 papers and has carried out may real life projects for UP Bhumi Sudhar Nigam, tata Infotech Limited, CGWB, WAPCOS, SASE, DRDO, ISRO, DST, CES, MCD, Pondicherry PWD, ORG Informatics, haryana Distillery, etc., some of them are World bank Funded Projects. He is the member of Indian Association of Hydrologic Sciences (IAHS), Indian Association of Hydrologists (IAH) and is also member of Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS), Indo French Unit for Water and Waste Technologies (IFUWWT), etc. He has been the reviewer of many international and national journals. He is the recipient of Commemorative Medal of Honor from American Biographical Institute (ABI), USA and INAE Young Engineer Award presented by Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam. Dr. Keshri had transferred the technology and know how domain to Tata Infotech Limited, India for the development of India’s first indigenous integrated fully GIS based groundwater application software’s HIS/GEMS and POGWM.

S. Chidambaram, Reader in Annamalai University: he took his graduation and master's degree in Geology with distinction (gold medal and merit scholarship) from Madurai Kamraj University and Annamalai University (1996) respectively. While being engaged in research as JRF in MoEF project in Annamalai University, completed his PhD in Hydrogeochemistry of groundwater in Erode district, Tamilnadu (2000). During the course of his research work he cleared SLET under UGC and joined as a lecturer in Annamalai University in 1998 and guided few M.Sc., M.Phil and PhD dissertations. He has developed program in C++ for hydro geochemical studies and his work was selected as the best paper in the International conference AHI in 2004. he got few major research projects from DST, UGC & government agencies on ground water quality International and also serving as a technical consultant for BBV, Englandand VRV consultants, Chennai in a project fro a water demand management for the overexploited regions in Chennai in DFID project. He has presented and published few papers in international and national journals.

Al. Ramanathan, is an Associate professor in the Schools of Environmental Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru university, new Delhi, India. His research area is in the field of Hydrogeochemistry of the ground water in hard and coastal groundwater with application of computer graphics and graphics and statistical models and hydro geochemical models to ground water resource management. He has been teaching the ground water courses to PG students and research students for the past two decades. He has taught in numerous universities in India and abroad. He has guided few research students for their research degrees on ground water modeling aspects and guiding few more at present on these aspects for their research degrees from India and abroad. He has widely traveled all over the world for the advanced research work in ground water. He is also a recipient of various international and national scholarship including STA Japan, Linneas-Palme Sweden, IFS, Sweden, Indo-Australian, Indo-Russina, ILTP (DST) Russia, SASNET and SIDA, Sweden to have interactions and collaboratrions with other eminent scientists working in this field. He has authored numerous articles in reputed refereed journals and authored five books in these aspects.