Our Board

As part of INREM Foundation, CAREWATER in governed by a Board constituting of academicians, development professionals and scientists.

 

Directors

 

Dr. Sunderrajan Krishnan

 

BTech (Civil Engineering, IIT Mumbai), PhD (Geol. and Env. Sc., Stanford University)

 

His expertise lies in Hydrology, Water Resources, Statistical methods, Drinking Water supply, quality and treatment, Environmental modeling and Design and teaching courses on multi-disciplinary water management curriculum.

 

Recent Publications:

 

Krishnan S., 2007, An Illustrated Collection of Groundwater Problems, in Groundwater Governance Program, IWMI

 

Krishnan S., Islam A., Machiwal D., Sena D. R. and K. Villholth, 2009, The Living Wisdom: Local Well Driller Knowledge on Groundwater Hydrology: Inferences from Studies across Indo-Gangetic Basin, edited by Mukherji, A.,  K.G. Villholth, B.R. Sharma & J. Wang (eds.) in press 2009. Groundwater Governance in the Indo-Gangetic and Yellow River Basins: Realities and Challenges, IAH-Selected Papers Series, CRC/Balkema Press, Netherlands (formerly Taylor & Francis Publishers)

 

Krishnan S., 2008, The Tau Model for Data Redundancy and Information Combination in Earth Sciences: Theory and Application, Mathematical Geosciences, vol. 40, no. 6, pp. 705-727

 

Dr Rajnarayan Indu

 

MA (Economics, Jadavpur University), PhD (Economics, Gujarat University)

  

His expertise lies in Agricultural Economics, Drinking water quality, water treatment and health, socio-economic research of Fluorosis and Kidney Stone, Institutions for Water Management

 

 Recent Publications:

 

Indu R., Krishnan S. and T. Shah, 2007, Impacts of groundwater contamination with Fluoride and Arsenic: Affliction severity, medical cost and wage loss in some villages of India, International Journal of Rural Management, vol. 3, No. 1, pp 69-94

 

Indu R., 2008, A turning point: Water saving technologies in north Gujarat’s groundwater socio-ecology, IWMI Tata Meet, (submitted for review to Journal of Social Change)

 

Indu R. and A. Rawal, 2007, Incidences Social Impact of High Incidences of Kidney Stone, IWMI Tata Meet

 

 

Our Partners

 

We work with a wide network of partners spread across India. We have innovated in a unique manner of implementing research projects by continuous engagement with professionals located in different parts of the country. A total of 12 of our partners are located in different states of India and 15 of our partners are located in different districts of Gujarat.

 

Apart from this, we work with different organizations that are focussed on water, health, agriculture and livelihood.