Prof. Peiyue Li is a full professor in the field of hydrogeology and environmental sciences at Chang’an University, China, where he serves as the vice dean of School of Water and Environment. He has wide experience in groundwater quality assessment, hydrogeochemistry, and groundwater modeling. He has led over 30 research projects, edited and co-edited over 14 textbooks and academic monographs, and published over 200 articles in refereed journals on topics that range from groundwater quality assessment and groundwater hydrochemistry to groundwater pumping tests and in situ tracer tests. He at present serves as an associate editors for Exposure and Health, Mine Water and the Environment, Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, Human and Ecological Risk Assessment, Applied Water Science, Water Practice and Technology, and Discover Water. He has been awarded one of the most highly cited researchers by Clarivate, Elsevier, and other organizations. Prof. Vetrimurugan Elumalai is an established hydrogeologist expertise in contaminant hydrology and groundwater modelling. He is excelling as an established researcher and mentor and director of the Research Center for Water Science and Technology, University of Zululand, South Africa. He is South African National chair of Hydrology (SARChI-Tier 1). His project experience covers groundwater resource investigation and development, groundwater characterization, contaminant hydrogeology and urban development, surface water groundwater interactions, remote sensing, and GIS application in Water Resource Management. He has published about 80 research papers in reputed journals. He is a registered scientist with SACNASP. He is a life member of International Association of Hydrological Science, International Association of Hydrogeologists, International Association of Hydrological Sciences, and Geological Survey of South Africa.Dr. Jianhua Wu is a full professor at Chang’an University in China, specializing in hydrology and water resources in arid areas, loess seepage and its disaster mechanisms, and groundwater environmental protection. She has led over ten research projects and has been awarded more than ten research prizes. Her research output includes over 80 academic papers published in international journals, with 16 of them recognized as highly cited and popular papers by Essential Science Indicators. She is an associate editor for the international journal Exposure and Health. Dr. Wu’s research excellence has garnered recognition from prestigious organizations such as Clarivate and Elsevier, who have selected her as one of the most highly cited researchers in the world.

• 1.Water for Food and Water for the Environment in Africa: Looking Ahead.- 2.ClimaSan-GNN: A Hybrid Temporal GNN for Predicting Climate-Driven Sanzitation and Public Health Risks in Tropical Regions.- 3.Field-scale monitoring of actual evapotranspiration and irrigation efficiency using a smart field weighing lysimeter.- 4.Acid Mine Drainage (AMD) Assessment in South Africa using Static and Kinetic Methods: Characterisation of AMD from a Large, Abandoned Coal Discard Dump in the Klip River Coalfields.- 5.Application of GIS and remote sensing techniques in mapping selected small grain cereal crops in Limpopo Province (South Africa).- 6.Advancing Water Security through Managed Aquifer Recharge in Africa: A Review.- 7.Drought effect on the changes in vegetation cover and vegetation health conditions of the Western Cape Province of South Africa: A twenty-year analysis.- 8.Comparison of Spatial Variability of pCO2 and Dissolved CH4 in the waters of the Sundarbans mangroves and Hooghly Estuary, India.- 9.Predictive Modelling of Water Availability Dynamics in Southern Africa: A Data-Driven Approach for Sustainable Water Resource Management.- 10.Planktonic Foraminifera Shell Weight as a Paleoceanographic Proxy: Controls, Methodologies and Biases.- 11.Tracking forest vitality: Impact of climate change and Net Primary Productivity (NPP) fluctuations in selected forest ecosystems, Nilgiris Biosphere Reserve.- 12.Groundwater geochemistry and cemetery leachate impacts at Langberg Cemetery, South Africa.- 13.Offshore Fresh Groundwater in South Africa’s Continental Margin: Insights from Geophysical, Petrophysical, and Geological Analysis.- 14.Assessment of pCO2 in a tropical river system of Borneo to infer carbon dynamics and related geochemical mechanisms.- 15.Review of geochemical modelling approaches in groundwater of arid regions: Software, applications, challenges, and recommendations.