WaterWiki Editors
The Editorial Group has been selected by IWA Publishing to edit, review and modify content on the WaterWiki. Here, you can find out who is who is reviewing what and where they are working on the site.
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Content Table
Senior Editors
Ana Bachurova
Profession:
Policy Advisor
Department:
Policy Advise for Sustainable Hydropower
Organization:
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)
Email:
Your key interests: water governance, private actors, sustainable water management, dams and hydropower
WaterWiki Subject Categories:
- Governance
- Sustainability
- Water and Energy
Editorial Team
Rubia Zahid Guar
Profession:
Researcher
Department:
Civil Engineering
Organization:
Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India
Email:
Key Interests:
Sanitation and Wastewater treatment, Nutrients removal, Wastewater microbiology, Resources recovery and Reuse.
WaterWiki Subject Categories:
- Wastewater Treatment
- Sanitation
- Sustainability
Abid Ali Khan
Profession:
Researcher
Department:
Civil Engineering
Organization:
Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India
Email:
dee.abid@gmail.com and abidkdce@iitr.ernet.in
Key Interests:
Sanitation and Wastewater treatment, Nutrients removal, Wastewater microbiology, Resources recovery and Reuse.
WaterWiki Subject Categories:
- Wastewater Treatment
- Sanitation
- Sustainability
Anna Doro-on
Profession:
Senior Consultant
Department:
Infrastructure Consulting
Organization:
RAMCO Companies Inc.
Email:
anna@annaforhomelandsecurity.com
Key Interests:
Water Resources Engineering, Infrastructure Protection & Homeland Security, Risk Assessment & Decision-Making Analysis, Environmental Remediation, Underground Freight Transportation by Capsule Pipelines and other Tunnel Systems, Civil Design/Land Planning, Pyrotechnic Materials & Explosion Prevention Development, Cryogenics, Hydrology, Sustainable Design, Water & Wastewater Technology and Infrastructure Rehabilitation.
WaterWiki Subject Category:
- Water Treatment
- Water Resources
- Infrastructure Security
- Wastewater Treatment
- Risk Assessment/Management
- Disaster Risk Management
- Sustainability
James Keeley
Profession: Research Engineer (Stream EngD student)
Department:
Cranfield Water Science Institute
Organization:
Stream Industrial Doctorate Centre
Email:
Your key interests: Water and wastewater treatment processes, sludge management, water chemistry, membrane separation, resource recovery
WaterWiki Subject Categories:
- Water Treatment
- Wastewater Treatment
Profession:
Research Fellow
- Department:
Department of Civil Engineering
- Organization:
Department of Civil Engineering. AMU,. Aligarh (U.P) India
- Email:
Your key interests: Environmental Engineering
Hao Ju
Profession:
Senior Engineer
Department:
Dow Water & Process Solutions, Filmtec Corporation
Organization:
The Dow Chemical Company
Email:
Key interests: wastewater treatment and membrane based liquid separation
Sarah Ward
- Profession:

Water Professional
- Department:
Centre for Water Systems, College of Engineering, Mathematics and Physical Sciences
- Organization:
University of Exeter,
CIWEM, BHS, IWA,
- Email:
Key Interests: Drought and flooding issues, Sustainable Water Management, Rainwater Harvesting, Demand Management, Stakeholder Participation, Water Quality
Alireza Yazdani
Profession:
Postdoctoral researcher
Department:
Centre for Water Science, Sustainable Systems Department
Organization:
Cranfield University, Cranfield, MK43 0AL, UK
Email:
Your key interests: Water Distribution Systems, Fluid Mechanics, Hydraulics, Risk and Reliability, Complex Networks
Tonni Kurniawan
Profession:
Postdoctoral researcher
Department:
Department of Environmental Science and Forestry
Organization:
University of Eastern Finland
Email:
Key Interests:
Adsorption, advanced oxidation process; heavy metal removal; landfill management
WaterWiki Subject Categories:
- Water pollution control
- water treatment
- environmental protection
Richard Appiah Otoo
Profession:
GIS Manager, Ghana Water Company Ltd/Aqua Vitens Rand Ltd
- Department:
GIS Department
- Organization:
Ghana Water Company Ltd/Aqua Vitens Rand Ltd
- Email:
Key Interests:
Water Distribution, Hydraulics, Water management, Urban water supply and policy, climate change and GIS
WaterWiki Subject Categories:
- Water Supply
- Hydrology
- Hydroinformatics
- Applied Hydraulics
- Water and Climate
- Profession:

Research Scientist, Doctor Chemical Engineer
Co-Chair of the IWA SG on Institutional Governance & Regulation
- Organization:
Institute of Fishing Resources
- Email:
Key Interests:
Hydrochemistry, Hydrology, Impact Assessment of Climate Change, Water Environment, Water Database Management, Water Resources Management, Coastal and Open Seawaters, Black Sea Watershed, Ecosystems
WaterWiki Subject Categories:
- Hydrology
- Environmental Impacts
Prof. Pengzhi Lin
- Profession:
Professor
- Department:
State Key Laboratory of Hydraulics and Mountain River Engineering
- Organization:
Sichuan University
- Email:
Key Interests:
Computational hydraulics
Coastal Engineering and wave dynamics
River Engineering and sediment transport
Water quality modeling
WaterWiki Subject Categories:
- Applied Hydraulics
- Modelling
- Hydroinformatics
Jian Lu
Profession:
PH.D
Department:
Indian River Research and Education Center
Organization:
University of Florida
Email:
Key Interests:
The transport and fate of hazardous environmental pollutants in natural and engineered systems and related treatment techniques, water sustainability, bio-energy technology.
WaterWiki Subject Categories:
- Wastewater Treatment
Ming Li
- Profession:

research assistant at the University of western Ontario
Organization:
CESPN, Chinese Environmental Scholar & Professionals Network
- Email:
Key Interests: BNR, biofilm and fluidized bed
WaterWiki Subject Categories:
- Wastewater Treatment
Dr. Alexander Schriewer
Profession:
Environmental Scientist
- Department:
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of California, Davis
- Email:
Key Interests:
- Stormwater runoff management and treatment
- Water quality control
- Pollution source tracking
- Improvement of detection of microbiological targets via qPCR
WaterWiki Subject Categories:
- Risk Management
Zeng Ping
- Profession:
Ph.D, Associate Professor
- Department:
Urban aquatic environment research centre
- Organization:
CRAES, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences
- Email:
Key Interests: Environmental Engineering, wastewater treatment, microbiotechnology, membrane technology
WaterWiki Subject Categories:
Wastewater Treatment
Han Xun
- Profession:
Master of Engineering
- Department:
State Key Laboratory of Hydraulics and Mountain River Engineering
- Organization:
Sichuan University
- Email:
hxscu@yahoo.com.cn
Key Interests: Hydrology and water resources, Modeling, Hydroinformatics
WaterWiki Subject Categories:
Hydrology, Modeling, Hydroinformatics
Ross Gregory
- Profession:
water treatment specialist
- Email:
Key Interests:
- water treatment:coagulation, flocculation, sedimentation, DAF and filtration,
- raw water management: implications of Fe and Mn arising from reservoir stratification and their removal by water treatment
- ground water treatment:CO2, Fe, Mn and As removal
- novel treatments: Sirofloc and physical water treatment (magnets etc)
- plumbosolvency control
- unit costs of water and sewage treatment
- ion exchange and lime softening
- swimming pool water treatmentWaterWiki Subject Categories:
WaterWiki Subject Categories:
- Water Treatment
Joaquim Martins
- Profession:
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Former CEO of five major water companies
- Department:
Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, Portugal
- Organization:
Águas do Porto, Portugal
- Email:
Key Interests: Water Loss; Management of Change in Water Companies; Urban Water Cycle: Water Supply, Wastewater, Storm Water, Rehabilitation of Urban Creeks and Beaches
WaterWiki Subject Categories:
- Wastewater
- Utility Management
- Water Supply
Robert Shibatani
- Profession:
Managing Partner & Consulting Hydrologist
- Organization:
The Shibatani Group
- Email:
Key Interests:
Water supply/drought management planning; Water contracting, transfers, assignments and wheeling agreements; Source area reservoir operations (integrating flood control, water supply, and coldwater pool needs); New reservoir development; Snowmelt runoff processes; Effects of climate perturbations on high altitude, snow-dominated watersheds; Watershed physical runoff mechanisms; Integrated Watershed Resource Management planning.
WaterWiki Subject Categories:
- Utility Management
- Water Supply
- Wastewater
Arjan Jovani
- Profession:
Hydraulic Engineer
- Organization:
Albanian National Commission
- Email:
Key Interests:
laws on water, institutions and water company, management of drinking water system and sewerage system, water tariff policy and data on water tariffs
WaterWiki Subject Categories:
- Utility Management
- Water Supply
