Water Matters

Prof. Abhijit Mukherjee received his PhD degree from the University of Kentucky, United States and is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Texas at Austin, United States. He has served as the physical hydrogeologist at the Alberta Geological Survey in Canada and is currently a professor at the Department of Geology and Geophysics, and the School of Environmental Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India. Prof. Mukherjee’s main research area is hydrogeology, including water pollution, scarcity, and governance. He is known globally for his studies on geological and human-sourced groundwater pollution and has done extensive work on delineating groundwater scarcity using field observations, advanced computation, and Artificial Intelligence techniques. He has received many distinctions, including the highest award in Indian science. He is a fellow of the Geological Society of America, the American Geophysical Union, and the Royal Society of Chemistry. He has editorial roles in the Journal of Hydrology, Applied Geochemistry, Journal of Earth System Sciences, Scientific Reports, ES&T Letters, ES&T Engineering, and Water Resources Research. He is the editor of several books, including Groundwater of South Asia and Global Groundwater: Source, Scarcity, Security, Sustainability and Solutions.

• Section 1 - Water for all1. Water matters: the thirst, the demand, and the society2. Opportunities and challenges3. Data science and environmental analytics for water for better health4. Toward sustainable developmentSection 2 - Accessing clean water5. Safe and sustainable drinking water availability (SDG 6.1)6. Water: the key to sanitation (SDG 6.2)7. Water pollution (SDG 6.3)8. Water scarcity and availability (SDG 6.4)9. Sustainable development and wise stewardship of transboundary waters by 2050 (SDG 6.5)10. The role of water in ecosystems (SDG 6.6): achieving sustainable development for spring ecosystemsSection 3 - The broader picture: water in achieving sustainable development11. Water in poverty alleviation (SDG 1)12. Role of water in food security and hunger reduction (SDG 2)13. Public health approaches for prevention and control of water-related diseases (SDG 3)14. Relationship between water and education (SDG 4)15. Advancing gender equity through water (SDG 5)16. Affordable and clean energy and water (SDG 7)17. The role of economics in meeting the sustainable development goals for water (SDG 8)18. Role of infrastructure and innovation in attaining water security (SDG 9)19. Water addressability to inequalities (SDG 10)20. Water in sustaining resilient cities (SDG 11)21. Sustainable consumption and production from water circularity perspectives (SDG 12)22. Climate change and terrestrial water storage in large river basins (SDG 13)23. Conservation of water ecosystem (SDG 14)24. Life on land needs fresh water (SDG 15)25. Advancing collaborative approach for managing water conflicts from sectoral to transboundary scale (SDG 16)26. Water for sustainable development: examining the water-energy-food-society nexus (SDG 17)