Eilon Adar is the Director, Zuckerberg Institute for Water Research (ZIWR). Since 1985, he has held a full academic position in Ben-Gurion University, Negev. He is an associate professor at both the Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research at Sede Boqer (Department of Environmental Hydrology and Microbiology), and in the Department of Geological & Environmental Sciences. Recently, he was appointed the first Director of the ZIWR. Prof. Adar’s main research activities are associated with quantitative assessment of groundwater flow systems and sources of recharge in complex arid basins with puzzling geology and scarce hydrological information. His research includes the study and application of ancient water conservation and storage techniques of the Nabatians and other ancient tribes of the Middle East.
Alvaro A. Aldama has a BS in Civil Engineering at National Autonomous University (NAU) of Mexico, Master of Engineering in Hydraulics degree from the NAU of Mexico, and his PhD in Fluid Mechanics from MIT. He has 25 years in academia and industry and has held positions as Director of River Engineering at the Secretariat of Agriculture and Water Resources, Scientific Advisor of the Mexico-US International Boundary and Water Commission, Professor of Civil Engineering at Princeton University, Scientific Advisor of the New York State Legal Department, Deputy Coordinator of Hydraulics Systems Technology at the Mexican Institute of Water Technology. He currently holds the positions of Director General of the Mexican Institute of Water Technology and Professor of the Graduate Division at the School of Engineering of the NAU of Mexico. He has written over one hundred and fifty publications.
H. E. Alimov, Rashid is the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Tajikistan to the People’s Republic of China since October 2005; Permanent Representative of the Republic of Tajikistan to the Shanghai Cooperation Organization; 1995-2005: Permanent Representative of the Republic of Tajikistan to the United Nations with a diplomatic rank of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary; 1992-1995: Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Tajikistan; 1986-1994: Member of the Parliament of the Republic of Tajikistan. Mr. Alimov was awarded the Order of Friendship (order of Druzhba narodov) in 1986, and the Order of Honor (order of Sharaf) of the Republic of Tajikistan in 1999, he holds a Ph.D. degree in Sociology, and is the author of scientific publications and monographs on inter-ethnic relations, current migration processes, youth and international affairs.
Mohammed Abdulaziz Al-Sahlawi - Dean at College of Industrial Management at King Fahd University of Industrial Development; Member of Supreme Economic Council (SEC) by royal decree; Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, USA (1985); oversees and advises on programs in Energy Economics; Petroleum Economics; Econometrics; Industrial Organization; Urban Economics; Micro Economics; Macro Economics; International Economics; Managerial Economics. 
Ali Saad Al-Tolkhais is a Ph.D in Hydrogeology and Water Resources Planning and Management, Colorado State University, USA (Groundwater Management Strategies for Saudi Arabia); Master Degree Hydrogeology, Ohio State University, USA (Quantitative Study of the Wasia Aquifer - Saudi Arabia); BB.Sc. Degree (Geology/Zoology), King Saud University, Riyadh KSA; Deputy Minister of Water Affairs Ministry of Water and Electricity; Director General of Water Resources Development Department (WRDD) Ministry of Agriculture and Water (MAW) K.S.A.; Chairman, Saudi National Committee for IHP - UNESCO; Chairman of the National Committee for Water use rationalization in the Kingdom; member/representative of many national and international water and agricultural committees.
Kofi Annan, from Ghana, was the 7th UN Secretary-General; first to be elected from the ranks of UN staff. Before being appointed Secretary-General, he served one year as Assistant Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, and then became Under-Secretary General. While there, the UN had unprecedented growth in its peacekeeping operations. In April 2000, he issued a Millenium Report, entitled, “We the Peoples: The Role of the United Nations in the 21st Century.” Quote, “Access to safe water is a fundamental human need and, therefore, a basic human right.” He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2001 for “bringing new life to the United Nations”. Today, Secretary-General Kofi Annan plays a vital role in our world’s water future. He is recipient of many awards, including: Order of the Dutch Lion, Grand Cross, 2006; University of St. Gallen, Switzerland, Max Schmidheiny Foundation Freedom Prize (originally awarded 2003, but postponed due to Annan's illness), 18 November 2006; Princeton University, Crystal Tiger Award, 28 November 2006; Inter Press Service, International Achievement Award for Annan's lasting contributions to peace, security, and development, 19 December 2006; Olof Palme Prize, 2006.
Kemi Awoyinka is the Wetlands and Poverty Alleviation Programme Officer at the Headquarters of Wetlands International in The Netherlands. With a background in environment and development studies, and several years of related work, she also presently acts as Coordinator of the Wetlands and Livelihoods Working Group. This Working Group was initiated by Wetlands International to strengthen the understanding of the dynamic relationship between poverty and wetlands as well as to promote new partnerships between poverty reduction and conservation organisations.
Maude Barlow is the National Chairperson of The Council of Canadians, and the cofounder of the Blue Planet Project, which works to stop commodification of the world’s water. She is also a Director with the International Forum on Globalization. Maude is the recipient of numerous educational awards and has received honorary doctorates from six Canadian universities for her social justice work. In addition to being nominated for the “1000 Women for the Nobel Peace Prize 2005” she is also the recipient of the “2005/2006 Lannan Cultural Freedom Fellowship”. Most recently she received the prestigious “2005 Right Livelihood Award” given by the Swedish Parliament and widely referred to as “The Alternative Nobel.” She is the best-selling author or coauthor of fifteen books. Her recent and highly regarded book, Blue Gold, focuses on the international water challenge and privatization.
Peter Bridgewater is currently Secretary General, Convention on Wetlands of International Importance (Ramsar, Iran, 1971). Prior to that he held the posts of Secretary, UNESCO Mand and the Biosphere Programmed, and Chief Executive, Australian Nature Conservation Agency. He has held appointments as Chair of many intergovernmental bodies, including the International Whaling Commission. He has produced approximately 200 publications on nature conservation, vegetation science and biodiversity issues, and is considered a global influence and leader in the preservation of wetland ecosystems and oceanic flora and fauna.
Anwarul Chowdhury is the United Nations Under-Secretary General and High Representative for Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries, and small Island Developing Countries. Prior to his appointment, Ambassador Chowdhury was Permanent Representative of Bangladesh to the UN. He also served as Bangladesh’s Ambassador to Chile, Nicaragua, Peru and Venezuela, as well as Bangladesh’s High Commissioner to the Bahamas and Guyana. He has also served as the UN’s President of the Security Council; President of the UN’s Children Fund (UNICEF), and Vice-President of the Economic and Social Council. Recipient of the U Thant Award and UNESCO Gandhi Gold Medal for Culture of Peace. He is a regular contributor to journals on peace, development and human rights issues, and a global speaker. Served as an Adjunct Professor at the School of Diplomacy at Seton Hall University of the United States.
Marcel Claude is Oceana’s Vice President-South America. He is one of the prominent opinion leaders in Chile. As Director of the Division of Environmental Accounts at Chile’s Central Bank in the 1990s, he oversaw groundbreaking reports addressing the depletion of Chile’s forest, fishery and mining resources. He founded Terram Foundation, a NGO dedicated to sustainable development. Since its creation in 1997, Terram is has become one of Latin America’s most influential NGOs. He is author- coauthor of six books, many newspaper and magazine articles, and is respected for his environmental research and relative presentations in Chile’s major print and broadcast media. He has a master’s degree in economics from the University of Chile as well as a master’s degree and doctorate in economics from the Université Catholique de Louvain (Belgium).
Former architect, Callum Coats, has spent decades of his life locating and re-assembling Viktor Schauberger’s scattered works, and translating them into English. He is the author of several water-related books, including Living Energies, and succeeds in making Schauberger’s complex, esoteric, and inter-related concepts about water, comprehensible to a broad spectrum of people. He has arranged a massive volume of Shauberger materials in a large volume called the Eco-Technology Series. This series was arranged by theme into four volumes - the first one being, The Water Wizard. Coats document how Schauberger was one of the founders of today’s ecological movement. Coats’ message, based on his Schauberger research, is to help us see how vital it is for humankind to work cooperatively with Nature’s most powerful element of water.
Alev Lytle Croutier is the author of Taking the Waters, Spirit, Art, Sensuality - an internationally acclaimed book that touches on and reveals water’s many dimensions from prehistoric times to the present, including its mythological and religious history. She is also author of Harem: The World Behind the Veil, which has been translated into eight languages, and a new novel entitled Seven Houses, about the social/economic/political evolution of Turkey as it relates to the lives and struggles of a collection of families. A selected Guggenheim Fellow, she has several screenwriting credits to her name, including Tell Me a Riddle, based on Tillie Olsen’s novel.
Tim Cullen is Principal of Tim Cullen Associates International Policy Management; Manager, ADB Water Awareness Program; Senior Assoc. Member of St. Anthony’s College, Oxford; President of the Board of International School of Paris; Chair of UK charity - Worldaware; author of “Yugoslavia and the World Bank”; Director of the Oxford Programme on Negotiation at the Said Business School he established in 2002. Associated with transformation of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe to market economies, and the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro. Has broadcast and lectured in North America, Europe, and Asia. Served as ADB’s representative at the 4th World Water Forum in Mexico City. Served years on the Joint United Nations Information Committee. Left his post as Senior Advisor for External and United Nations Affairs at the World Bank in 1999 to establish his private firm.
Gedeon Dagan won the Stockholm Water Prize - 1998; Doctor of Science 1964- Israel Inst. of Technology; Professor, Tel-Aviv University, 1976-present, Israel; Visiting Professor: Imperial College, London; University of California, Berkeley & Santa Barbara, USA; Ecole des Mines, Paris; Princeton University, USA; Delft U., Delft; University of Iowa, USA; Visiting Senior Scientist - Hydronautics Inc., Maryland, USA; Visiting Scientist, Iowa State University, Iowa, USA; Member, Academic Staff, Israel Inst. of Technology, Israel; Research Engineer, The Inst. of Hydraulic Research, Bucharest; Elected Fellow, American Geophysical Union; The Horton Award, American Geophysical Union, Hydrology Section.
Nina Dagbaeva lives in ULAN-UDE on Lake Baikal in Russia, and through a NGO, she has dedicated her life to saving this rare lake, which is also a natural world heritage site. She is responsible for research and publications for the ecological condition of the Baikalsees, clearing-up of the population, and cooperation with international interests relative to water and environmental protection. She is key at the Baikal Information Center “GRAN”, and travels the globe to educate and participate in cutting edge lake research for the mitigation of damage and their sustainability.
Environmental art pioneer, Betsy Damon, creates large-scale art parks featuring sculptural flow forms and public art events to help clean urban waterways and raise water awareness around the globe. Her nonprofit organization, Keepers of the Waters, provides information and technical support for others working with similar design principles and processes. Created and designed the internationally renown Living Water Garden in China’s City of Chengdu. This garden takes naturally flowing water from what is now part of the Fu Nan River restoration project, and restores its living energies through use of various flow forms; ponds, and wetlands. She presently works on many educational and water project around the globe, including the water system for the 2008 Olympics in Beijing.
Ted Danson is an American actor noted for his television role Cheers, and Becker. He is a founding member of American Oceans Campaign (AOC), whose organizational focus is on protecting the living habitat of our world’s oceans. AOC has now merged with Oceana, with Danson serving on the board.
Oceana’s focus is to perform scientific research and lobby governments in order to help protect and preserve life in our oceans on a sustainable basis for future generations.
He often donates his time and money toward fund-raising efforts on behalf of water. He has received many awards, and in 2003 received the Distinguished Achievement Award from his alma mater, Carnegie Mellon University.
Leonardo DiCaprio is an actor /environmentalist /producer /director. His Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation sponsored the “Water Planet” film; and he did a spoken word piece entitled “Global Warming.” He supports many organizations and uses his talents for efforts on behalf of our planet’s natural resources, as expressed in his recent film, The 11th Hour. He sits on various boards, including Global Green USA, and the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). Recently, the NRDC opened a green building featuring a Leonardo DiCaprio e-Activism Zone. Many awards – including Global Green USA Environmental Leadership Award, and Tower Award for his Contributions to International Cinema.
Victoria Dryfoos: Her professional journey with art began as a photographer and archivist for the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C. In 1992, she became submerged into Mexico’s indigenous cultures and art. In 1994, Ms. Dryfoos established Arte Huichol to export Huichol art; to promote awareness of the culture, and provide income for Huichol families. She has fundraised for the tribe as a member of the “Tau-Sol Huichol Artist Cooperative” and has been a member of the “Fair Trade Federation”. Currently, she teaches Spanish Language and Latin Culture at the Oak Bluffs School, MA; and acts as a liaison for Cultural Survival’s “Huichol Project”. Ms. Dryfoos has organized exhibits of Huichol Art at the Mexican Cultural Institute; Organization of American States; American Museum of Natural History, of Washington, D.C.; National Museum of American Indian, of NY, NY; the Peabody Museum, of Cambridge, MA.
Dr. Masaru Emoto was born in Japan and is a graduated of the Yokohama Municipal University and the Open International University as a doctor of Alternative Medicine. His photographs were first featured in his self-published books Messages from Water 1 and 2, and were the result of a discovery in his laboratory as to how water crystals appeared to reflect environmental influences. His discoveries relative to the molecular response of water to external influences, and how these influences become manifest via water crystals, has opened a new area of inquiry, and helped to increase human consciousness to see water as an interactive and sensitive element. 
Ms. Rosemary Enie is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Women International Coalition Organisation International (WICO), and Topical Curator of the Global Water Sustainability Forum; she is a Cameroonian Geologist and Gender Ambassador with the Gender and Water Alliance (GWA) of the Netherlands; and Executive Director of Cameroon Vision Trust, a Cameroon-based NGO, and is prominent in the Women's Earth Alliance. For over 15 years she has been working in the field of sustainable development in Cameroon, Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, South Africa, etc. Ms. Enie travels the globe attending water conferences such as the World Water Forum and World Water Week, as she represents and speaks on women's and children's issues relating to water.
Glenn Estess served as RI vice president in 1991-92, RI Director, Rotary Foundation trustee, governor of District 6860, and chairman of the Audit and Operations Review Committee. He has been a Rotarian since 1960. He has retired from Glenn Estess Associates, where he was chief executive officer. Estess was born in Pike County, Miss., USA, and graduated with a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from Tulane University in New Orleans. 
Larry Fahn first became involved with the Sierra Club in the early 1970s while a student at UC Davis, where he majored in environmental studies. A lawyer with a nearly 20-year-old solo practice, he became Director in 1998 of As You Sow - which earns millions suing companies that expose Californians to chemicals and other hazards without preemptive warnings. With Fahn’s direction, these monies were funneled to the Rainforest Action Network; the Ruckus Society; Earth Island Institute; Project Underground, and the California office of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Waterkeeper Alliance. A Sierra Club board member in 1999, Fahn became chair of the Marin County (CA) chapter in 2001; Sierra Club vice president in 2002, and then president in 2003. Upon his appointment, Fahn announced his intentions to “retake the Congress with a pro-environmental majority.” 
Carlos García-Robles, activist, Global Youth Action Network Gyan - Mexico Coordinator, project coordinator for Bicitekas an organization that promotes sustainable transportation - mobility, GAIA - Mexico member and coordinator for the recycle project, member of the board of IRRI - Mexico (International Renewable Resources Institute), coordinator for a greening campuses project in the UNAM (National University), involved in a community project to promote and install “Dry Toilets” in south Mexico City area, was involved in the WSSD process as Mexican representative at the UN. Involved also in various sustainable development national and international forums. He also is involved with ongoing studies on water technologies, renewable energy and environment, especially with a focus on ancient practices of the Toltec and Mayan civilizations in Mexico.
Gourisankar Ghosh is Executive Director, Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council International Environment House. Achievements: Launch of the WASH (Water Sanitation and Hygiene) Campaign for reaching the MDG in 35 countries. Launched the WASH for Schools with UNICEF in Kyoto. Conceptualized and launched the African Ministers Initiative in WASH (AMIWASH) and Global Women Leaders for WASH. Conceptualized and started, the regional sanitation initiatives as AFRICASAN and SACOSAN. Developed the first Board approved Water Environment and Sanitation policy in UNICEF in 1995. Played a key role in water sector and was elected the Chair for ACC Sub committee. Founding member of Global Water Partnership and World Water Council. From an international persepctive, he has his finger on the world’s water pulse.
Dr. Jane Goodall DBE; UN Messenger of Peace - the world’s authority on chimpanzees-a precious form of wildlife she helps via her Chimpanzee Guardian Project; Scientific Director of the Gombe Stream Research Center since 1967. Her career-long sponsor has been the L.S.B. Leakey Foundation. She has expanded her global outreach by founding of the Jane Goodall Institute based in Ridgefield, CT. The Institute’s Roots & Shoots program now has 8,500 groups in over 90 countries. Jane Goodall teaches young people to appreciate and respect all creatures. Many honors including, Dame Commander of the British Empire; Medal of Tanzania; Japan’s Kyoto Prize; Gandhi-King Award for Nonviolence; Benjamin Franklin Medal in Life Science. Her lectures now have her traveling over 315 days out of the year. A partial list of Dr. Goodall's books are: The Chimpanzee Family Book; Harvest for Hope: A Guide to Mindful Eating; Reason for Hope: A Spiritual Journey; My Life with the Chimpanzees; In the Shadow of Man; Through a Window; Chimpanzees I Love: Saving Their World And Ours; Africa in My Blood: An Autobiography in Letters: The Early Years. 
Mikhail Gorbachev is commonly anglicized as Gorbachev; born March 2, 1931, was leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 until 1991. His attempts at reform helped to end the Cold War, but also ended the supremacy of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) and dissolved the Soviet Union. In 1985 he introduced alcohol reform. The failure of this reform produced a black market and a serious blow to the state’s budget (about 100 billion rubbles). Alcohol reform was one of the trig-gers of events causing the Soviet Union’s collapse. In an effort to democratize the USSR, he presented a Treaty of Union to create a voluntary federation of states. The old system was threatened, which led to the August Coup in 1991. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1990. He is a world leader for enlightened water resource protection and management, founder of Green Cross International.
Jennifer Greene is Founder of The Water Research Institute of Blue Hill. Ms. Greene has presented at three World Water Forums, The Hague (2000); Kyoto (2003); Mexico City (2006), and participated in the World Summit for Sustainable Development in 2002. She also gives seminars internationally to such diverse groups as the first International Women and Water conference on the banks of the Ganges River in India; educational and youth groups in South Africa; and to conferences all over the United States and Canada. Besides her research and teachings on water at the Water Research Institute, she is also presently working on a film series entitled, “Water: The Language of Nature.”
Gilbert M. Grosvenor is Chair of National Geographic Society’s board of trustees and its Education Foundation. Retired as President of the Society in 1986. He is the fifth generation of his family to hold the title, President of the Society. He has served as director or trustee of numerous foundations and corporations, including The Conservation Fund; Chevy Chase Bank; Ethyl Corp.; The Jason Foundation; Marriott Int., Inc.; Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International; Wildlife Conservation Society; National Wildflower Research Center, and many others. In 2004 he received the United States Presidential Medal of Freedom along with Pope John Paul II. This medal is the nation’s highest civilian honor. He is an inspiration for many of National Geographic’s articles relative to water and the environment. His achievements are reflected in the Gilbert M. Grosvenor Center for Geographic Education established in Texas.
Sebastià Seme Guitart was born in 1974. After his university studies in Evolutionary Biology he completed a PhD on Population Biology from EPHE/ Sorbonne University (Paris). During the last years of his studies, he started working in parallel in journalism, including collaborating with several radio stations and writing chronicles for one of Andorra’s national newspapers, El Periodic d’ Andorra. In 2000 he became the Director the Ministry of Education, dealing with inventorying and monitoring biodiversity and raising public awareness on this and water-related issues. He is currently working for the Ramsar Convention for the preservation of wetlands worldwide as the Convention Development Officer.
Amy Hart is a documentary filmmaker/photographer/water activist based in New York. Her film, Water First, filmed in Malawi and South Africa, premiered at the IV World Water Forum in Mexico, it won 2nd place. Received a Fulbright Cultural Exchange grant to attend screening of her film at EcoFilm Festival in Greece. Awarded SUNY’s Initiatives for Women Foundation Award to continue feature-length version for release on World Water Day 2007.Now working on international partnerships with Freshwater Project NGO in Malawi to provide clean water to rural communities. She produces and directs nationally broadcasted Telly-award winning television programs for the School of Public Health at the University at Albany. Previously, she worked at Miramax Films, Fine Line Features, New Line Cinema and King World.
Ryutaro Hashimoto was a famous Japanese politician who served as the 82nd and 83rd Prime Minister of Japan from January 11, 1996 to July 30, 1998. He was the leader of one of the largest factions within the ruling LDP through most of the 1990s and remained a powerful player in Japanese politics until he resigned his leadership in 2004. He chose not to stand in the General Election of 2005, and effectively retired from politics while dedicating his life to water and related international projects for the United Nations. He was Japan’s water voice at the 4th World Water Forum held in Mexico City during March 2006. He contributed his letter and took personal photographs of waters in Japan for this book before dying on July 1, 2006 at a Tokyo hospital. May his love for water flow eternal and guide humanity through these challenging times.
Ryan Hreljac: What began as a child’s quest to bring water to other children in the world, has evolved into a registered Canadian charity named Ryan's Well Foundation. Ryan has received: International World of Children Founders Award; Canadian Peach Award; Order of Ontario award, and others. He has received considerable international media exposure, and spends his time raising money to bring water to the underprivileged; speaking at gatherings, and traveling to villages to help install water wells. He often speaks at regional, national and international water conventions, and over the years while visiting and helping to install water wells in 3rd World countries, he has established close relationships with children around the globe.
Vassiliifiti Moelagi Jackson is Founding member of Samoa Visitors Association; in 1983 assisted in establishing Savaii Red Cross; 1989 assisted Swedish Nature in Conservation agreements to save Samoa’s rainforests and the Flying Fox; Founding member of Environmental Organization - O le Siosiomaga Society; Chair of Special Environmental Day Committee; lobbyist for Environmental, Cultural, Children, Women, Health and Human Rights, including Protection of Forest, Water, and Marine life from Barbados to Mauritius. Founding member of Samoa Women Umbrella of NGOs; President of Faasao Savaii Conservation Society; Vice President to SUNGO; VP of Savaii Rotary; Board Member of National University of Samoa, and University of the South Pacific; Deacon of Congregational Christian Church of Lalomalava. Owner of the renown Safua Hotel.
Nitya Jacob has worked as a journalist in print, television and online media since 1986. He has three start-ups to his credit—his own business of web designing and content creation, an online photo library and the South Asian regional office of international organization. He has been commissioned by Penguin India to write two books on, “The People of Indian Railways” and “Water Traditions of India”. Nitya has authored two publications on HIV-AIDS. He is currently director of WriteShop Infotech Pvt Ltd., a communications consultancy. Nitya teaches journalism at the post-graduate level. Besides his writing skills, he is also an excellent photojournalist, as can be evidenced by several of his photos in Water Voices from Around The World.
Sven Erik Jorgensen is a co-recipient of the 2004 Stockholm Water Prize, and recipient of the Senior Researcher Prigogine Medal 2004. 1965 - Present: Employed at Royal Danish School of Pharmacy. 1978 - Present: External associate professor - Environmental. Technology and Ecotechnology at The Danish Agricultural University. 1974 - Present: Editor in chief of Ecological Modelling 1991: Distinguished Visiting Professorship at Ohio State University. 1985 - Present: Member of ILEC’s scientific committee (International Lake Environmental Committee); since 1988 its bureau member; since 1995 President (Chairman). 1978 - 1996: Secretary general of ISEM - The International Society for Ecological Modeling.
Raymond Jost is General Secretary is the International Secretariat for Water. After more than 20 years working in education, psychology and on many questions related to youth and development, Mr. Jost’s attention turned to water when he took on the task of organizing the international forum “Water is Life”, held in Montreal in June 1990. This forum brought together a hundred delegates involved in sustainable water management around the world and gave birth to the International Secretariat for Water. Raymond Jost, founder and current General Secretary, has been responsible for its organization, development and expansion ever since.
Harinder Pal Kaur: Education: a postgraduate studies at Bombay University in Economics; Senior Lecturer at Elphinstone College in Mumbai; Senior Lecturer Distant Education Program of Bombay University; Kamat Hotels (India) Ltd. project Orchid, the only Ecotel hotel in Asia Harinder, a healthy building design to raise awareness for India and it’s impact on ECO-Tourism. Leader of workshops in alternative medicine in YOGA, AYURVED & NATURE CURE Systems - along with Horticulture, preservation of ecological balances and programs for the welfare of women and children in India, she brings along a quest for eternal truths through active service to humanity. She was recipient of Bharat Nirman Award of Alternate Therapy in 1998.
David Nicolas Lamothe is Project Manager, Office International de l’Eau, France. Research and publications on the legal framework for the participation of the sector deprived in the management of the services of drinking water and cleansing in the European Union. Presented at The State of Water in the World conference, “New Perspectives on the Use of Economics in Water Management” at Global Forum on Water in 2004, Rice University. Limonges University thesis, “The Technological risk: a challenge for the right of the environment.” Editor of book, “European Water Management between Regulation and Competition,” a comparative study of public-private water partnerships in Europe. 
Lyudmila Lapshina has worked for 20 years as administrator, researcher,
interpreter for Russian governmental agencies, as consultant for the USAID
projects, and for last 10 years as Advisor at the Permanent Mission of the
Republic of Tajikistan to the United Nations. Involved in advancing the
initiatives of the Government of the Republic of Tajikistan to proclaim the
year 2003 as the International Year of Freshwater, and 2005-2015 as the
International Decade of Action 'Water for Life" (UN GA Resolutions # 55/196
and # 58/217). A Member of the Advisory Board of the World Water Rescue
Foundation since 2000, and an Alumna of the SALZBURG Seminar on Water
Issues, 2002. Ms. Lapshina holds a Master Degree in Linguistics from the
Moscow Linguistics University, Russian Federation, and served as Production
Coordinator for Water Voices from Around the World.
Lajana Manandhar is founder member and director of Lumanti Support Group for Shelter, Kathmandu, Nepal. She has represented Lumanti in many regional and international conferences – Lumanti is the first organization in Nepal that brought the issues of urban poverty and secure housing for the squatter communities to national debate. She holds a masters degree in Agriculture Economics from the University of Technology, Papua New Guinea. She has working experience of more than 12 years in the area of community development, housing, water and sanitation, etc. Currently she is heading the NGO Forum for Urban Water and Sanitation as President. She is also the Member Secretary of Urban Community Support Fund, Kathmandu Metropolitan City. In March 2006 she was a Nepal representative and speaker at the 4th World Water Forum held in Mexico City.
William E. Marks researched fish kills and toxic pollution in the early 1970s. As a result, industry pled guilty to Grand Jury counts of pollution based on his evidence under the 1899 Refuse Act. Afer college, he worked for the City of Newark, New Jersey as an Environmental Analyst, where he managed public water supply and cleaning up Passaic River and Hudson River pollution. He undertook 'Ride For Nature' project - crossed 7,000 miles of the US via horseback for 2-years to raise water awareness. Founder/President of the Vineyard’s first State-Certified water testing lab; Founder/President - Vineyard Environmental Research, Inst. Performed acid rain research on mobilization of metals with a grants from the United States Environmental Protection Agency; the American Waterworks Association, and the New England Waterworks Association. Researched water - Europe; Morocco; Algeria; Australia; Canada; Mexico; Israel; Jordan; United Kingdom; United States; Ireland. Author of: The Holy Order of Water, Healing Earth’s Waters and Ourselves. Writes water-related articles and poetry for regional; national, and international publications such a The Encyclopedia of Water.
Colonel David Mead (Retired) has lived and worked in Cambodia since 1994. His last appointment, in a thirty-year career in the Australian Army, was as Australian Defence Attaché, Phnom Penh. Author of book, Cambodia, The Churning, Portrait of a People Tormented; a veteran of the Vietnam War - he has experienced the carnage and ongoing trauma, caused by mines. In Cambodia, the mine horror and suffering of civilians and untrained soldiers, were the catalyst for his expose’ writing, photography, and water research. He has worked in Cambodia as a consultant to the World Bank on law enforcement issues relative to forestry sector reform and impacts on water. He also represents the interest of Conservation International in the documentation of illegal logging.
Mohammed Valli Moosa (born in Johannesburg 9/02/1957) took office as the Environment and Tourism Minister of South Africa in 1999. As a champion of freedom–was imprisoned various times from 1980 to 1990. As part of the ANC’s constitutional team, helped draft the constitution of the Republic of South Africa. He raised the awareness of litter by naming plastic shopping bags the “national flower” and introducing a minimum legal thickness of 30 micrometres to increase cost, reusability, and recyclability. He was elected President of IUCN — the World Conservation Union at the 3rd World Conservation Congress in Bangkok in November 2004.
Jebra Ram Muchahary is National Chief President of Indian Confederation of Indigenous and Tribal Peoples (ICITP-NEZ). Cofounder of St. John’s Mission, Bijni; Founder, “Boroland Children Home”, Bijni, Assam to shelter and educate Bodo indigenous youth. Indigenous Peoples Representative – World Trade Organization and Indigenous Peoples, Tribal Welfare Society Assam Branch, India 44; United Nations Forum on Forests; Organizing editor of “Indigenous People’s Statement on Patenting of Life” statement adopted in Geneva; testified at the United Nations during the Second Indigenous Permanent Forum; Forest Peoples Programme: India - to prevent dislocation of indigenous forest peoples of India.
Sam Mutiso is Chairman of SASOL, a private aid group. SASOL stands for Sahelian Solutions, a Kenyan organization whose core is building water dams for Kenya’s driest areas. Author of Management of Aquifer Recharge and Subsurface Storage, Making Better Use of Our Largest Reservoir, - report presented at conference organized by the Netherlands National Committee for the IAH in cooperation with Netherlands Hydrological Society with support of United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Division (UNESCO); The Dialogue on Water and Climate (DWC), and The Bank-Netherlands Water Partnership Program (BNWPP); author of Managed Aquifer Recharge and Storage (MARS); author of reports, State of the art of Sub-surface Dams in Kenya, and Kenya at the Crossroads: Possible Scenarios for our Future.
For nearly four years Marcela Olivera has been a key international liaison for the Coordinadora de Defensa del Agua y de la Vida, the leaders of the Cochabamba water revolt. The Coordinadora helped organize the popular uprising against the privatization of their water system by Bechtel and the World Bank. After Bechtel took over, water rates skyrocketed up to 200% and people were forced to choose between rent, food and water. Marcela has also been working to strengthen the water committees in Cochabamba in order to protect the human right to water and ensure water for all. She works in Washington, DC with Public Citizen on water rights issues. She helps manage and consolidate water networks, and assists the Federation of Factory Workers in Cochabamba, Bolivia.
Ibrahim Ozdemir is Director-General, Ministry of National Education, Department of Foreign Affairs, Turkey, and professor of history of philosophy at Ankara University. He received his Ph.D. in Philosophy and Islamic Studies from The Middle East Technical University. He was an Associate Faculty member at the Macdonald Center for the Study of Islam and Christian-Muslm Relations at Hartford Seminary, Hartford, Connecticut, USA. He has traveled widely in the Muslim world and the West. Speaks on philosophy of world religions; environmental philosophy; sustainable development; religion and the environment; and Islamic studies. He has written six books, including: The Ethical Dimension of Human Attitude Towards Nature; Environment and Religion; Lonely Planet; Postmodern Thoughts - and over 50 articles. 
Sandra Postel is Director of the Global Water Policy Project in Amherst Massachusetts, and Visiting Senior Lecturer in Environmental Studies at Mount Holyoke College. She is also a Senior Fellow with Worldwatch Institute, Liquid Assets: The Critical Need to Safeguard Freshwater Ecosystems in July 2005. Through research, writing, consulting, teaching, and public speaking, Postel works to preserve Earth’s freshwater ecosystems and the life they sustain. She is author of Last Oasis:Facing Water Scarcity, which was the basis for a PBS documentary. She also wrote Pillar of Sand: Can the Irrigation Miracle Last?, and coauthor with Brian Richter, of Rivers for Life. In 2002, Postel was named one of the “Scientific American 50” by Scientific American magazine.
J. Michael Read is the 2005 – 2006 President of the Water Environment Federation (WEF). He is also a Vice President with HDR Engineering and is based in Portland, Oregon U.S.A. The Water Environment Federation is an international technical and educational organization, based in Alexandria, Virginia, U.S.A. and is dedicated to the preservation and enhancement of the water environment. WEF has over 35,000 members worldwide who participate through 76 member associations and represent some of the world’s leading water quality organizations, utilities, engineers, scientists, and water quality practitioners. WEF is world renown for its international educational efforts on behalf of evolving water technologies and its international conferences.
Dr. Richard Robarts - as Director of the Global Environmental Monitoring System/Water Programme (GEMS/Water), and the UN Environment Program, Dr. Robarts works with 24 UN agencies to promote safe drinking water for all. Is scientific advisor for 14 major international water agencies. To date, he has published more than 140 journal articles, 16 books and chapters, and numerous conference papers and reports. For the past ten years he has been working with Russian scientists to retrieve and analyze for publication some to the large amounts of limnological data gathered during the former USSR. He has been honoured with nine achievement awards and fellowships, and travels the globe speaking and teaching about water issues.
Irena Salina worked in production on numerous films before writing and directing her first feature, Ghost Bird: The Life and Art of Judith Deim (2000) , which won Best Documentary at the 15th Fort Lauderdale Film Festival, the Presidents’ Award at Mexico’s prestigious Ajijic Film Festival, and lives on as an evergreen audience favorite on the Sundance Channel. She is currently directing a major water film entitled For Love of Water (FLOW), with Producer Steven Starr, founder of Revver.com. The film is scheduled for international theatrical release in 2008. To quote Ms. Salina - "Working on For Love of Water has literally changed the direction and purpose of my life's journey. I intend to continue helping with the water crisis and have already returned to India several times to help with the water initiatives I filmed."
Jose Benitez Sanchez is from the Huichol, or “Wirarika” people. His native name is “Yuauye Kukame” which means “Silent Walker”. He was raised since childhood to be a “mara’akame, or shaman. Jose helped found the ceremonial center of Zitacua on the outskirts of Tepic, Nayarit. Politically active; he acts as a cultural liaison for his community, and is internationally renown as a Huichol artist. His art is exhibited in museums throughout the world. In 2003, he received the National Award for Sciences and the Arts, one of the most prestigious awards in Mexico. He is committed to his traditional gods as expressed in the elements. Much of his art tells a story relative to ancient beliefs. The art in this book tells a story about water–Giver of Life. As a shaman, he believes in supporting the health and healing of all life forms. 
Mr. Surachai Sasisuwan, Director General of the Water Resources Department, Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, Royal Thai Government, is a graduate of Thailand’s prestigious and century old Asian Institute of Technology. He was instrumental in establishing Thailand’s Centre of Water Crisis Prevention “to meet the challenge of meeting basic water needs of villages from 76% to 100% by 2009.” As head of Thailand’s Water Resources Department, he has taken China to task for construction of upstream dams causing changes in the Mekong River’s water flow and its flora and fauna, and threatening the quality of existence of 250 million people. 
Surakiart Sathirathai is a Deputy Prime Minister of Thailand overseeing Foreign Affairs, Education and Culture. He graduated with a First Class (Valedictorian) degree in law from Bangkok’s Chulalongkorn University. He earned two masters degrees, a Masters in Law (LL.M.) from Harvard Law School with a thesis on human rights and another in law and diplomacy (M.A.L.D) from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University. Surakiart was the first Thai to earn a doctorate in law from Harvard Law School. In 1995, Dr. Surakiart became Thailand’s youngest Finance Minister under Prime Minister Banharn Silapa-Archa. Recently, he was the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) candidate for Secretary-General of the United Nations.
Ravi Sawhney serves many international environmental and water interests of Asia and beyond as Director, Environment and Sustainable Development Division, United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, and as Director of the Environmental and Natural Resources Development Division of ESCAP - the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific. Mr. Sawhney is deeply involved with balancing business and development interests with the interests of natural resources, especially water.
Wolfram Schwenk is a leading world expert in water research, author, and water biologist who is the Director of Research of the Institute for Flow Sciences, Herrischried, Germany. He is the author of several books, including WATER, The Element of Life; The Hidden Qualities of Water, and Understanding Water - and many articles relative to the pioneering “drop picture” technique of quantifying and qualifying the presence of water’s “living” properties. He is author of Schwenk's Formula, and teaches us that we need a new and radical understanding of water - a revolutionary consciousness that we must achieve if our civilization is to survive. His entire life's work has been focused on water, as he carries on, adds to, and expands the original water research of his father, Theodor Schwenk. The unique scientific water research of the Institute of Flow Sciences is world renown.
Susan Seacrest founded the Groundwater Foundation in 1985 and has since served as its President. Seacrest holds a B.A. from Saint Olaf College, and a M.S. Ed. from the University of Rochester. In December 2007 she was a co-recepient of the distinguished Heinz Environmental Award for her efforts on behalf of groundwater over more than three decades. She currently serves on the Nebraska Environment Trust Board of Directors and the water advisory committee at the University of Nebraska. She has also served as a committee member of the National Assessment of Global Climate Change; as chair of the US EPA National Environmental Education Advisory Council; member of the US EPA National Drinking Water Advisory Council, and as President of the National Arbor Day Foundation Board of Directors. Ms. Seacrest's efforts on behalf of groundwater have been well documented in National Geographic magazine, she was also noted as one of the "Heroes of The Planet" in TIME magazine. 
Pete Seeger is a folk singer, author, activist, sailer, music/song writer, environmentalist - renowned for many of his music compositions, songs and strong political beliefs. In 1966 he founded the Hudson River Sloop Clearwater - an organization to help clean up the Hudson River and the oceans. He is a world-renown performing artist. Awards: The National Medal of Arts; Kennedy Center Lifetime Achievement Honor; The Harvard Arts Medal; Grammy Award; The Felix Varela Medal, and many others. A partial list of book credits include: American Favorite Ballads: Tunes and Songs as Sung by Pete Seeger; How to Play the 5-String Banjo; The Deaf Musicians; Rise Up Singing: The Group Singing Songbook; Abiyoyo: Based on a South African Lullaby and Folk Story; The Incompleat Folksinger; Abiyoyo Returns; Carry It On!: A History in Song and Picture of the Working Men and Women of America; The Foolish Frog; Pete Seeger's Storytelling Book; Where Have All the Flowers Gone: A Singer's Stories, Songs, Seeds, Robberies; Turn! Turn! Turn!; Get America Singing-- Again; Where Have All the Flowers Gone?: A Musical Autobiography.
Ingunn Selvik of the Norwegian Pollution Control Authority (SFT) – responsible for overall editorial responsibility for SFT scientific information and accessibility; Editor of State of the Environment Norway (SOE Norway), which offers the most up-to-date information about the state of Norway’s environment – a unique information system – making Norway one of the first countries in Europe to publish current information covering both national and regional environmental conditions, a project which synthesizes information from five national environmental agencies; Advisor, Norwegian Pollution Control Authority.
Dr. Vandana Shiva is a physicist, ecologist, activist, editor, and author of many books, including: Vedic Ecology; Water Wars: Privatization, Pollution, and Profit;Protect or Plunder. In India she established Navdanya, a movement for biodiversity conservation and farmers’ rights. She directs the Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Natural Resource Policy. Her philosophy was clearly stated in her interview published in ECO World. Her most recent books are Biopiracy: The Plunder of Nature and Knowledge, and Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply. Dr. Shiva is currently based in New Delhi, and is author of over 300 papers in leading scientific and technical journals. She is one of the leaders of the International Forum on Globalization, and has been the recipient of numberous awards as she continues to work tirelessly in the interest of water ethics and biodiversity. 
Freddy Silva is the world’s foremost expert on crop circles, and best-selling author of Secrets in the Fields: The Science and Mysticism of Crop Circles, hailed by many as the most comprehensive book ever written on this fascinating and multi-disciplinary phenomenon.
He recently directed the DVD documentary Stairways To Heaven: The Practical Magic Of Sacred Space. Born in Portugal, he spent two decades working as a photographer, then Art Director and Writer with some of the world’s leading advertising agencies. Today he is an international lecturer and a student of Earth Mysteries, Sacred Space, and ancient systems of knowledge. Freddy has appeared in TV documentaries for The History Channel and Discovery Channel, as well as numerous video documentaries.
Rajendra Singh is from Alwar, Rajasthan - Instrumental in founding Tarun Bharath Sangh to help mobilize communities to rejuvenate their own water resources. Received the Ramon Magsaysay Award in 2001 for his pioneering efforts on behalf of water management. Also known as the “rain catcher” for innovative use of ancient water harvesting concepts. For past two decades has worked with nomads, tribal community, and poorest of the poor sections of about 1,000 villages in Rajasthan State, on Natural Resources Management through the traditional knowledge and wisdom used by villages from centuries of conserving Water, Forest and Land; their only source of Livelihood. Presently working on Issue of National Water Policy declared by India, to make it more people oriented and prevent Privatization. Known as the Waterman, he is winner of the Ramon Magsaysay Award, which is the Asiatic Nobel Prize.
Malidoma Some’ was born in Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso), West Africa, is initiated in the ancestral traditions of his tribe, and is a medicine man and diviner in the Dagara Culture. He holds three master’s degrees and two doctorates from the Sorbonne and Brandeis University, and has taught at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is also the author of Ritual: Power, Healing and Community. At his tribal elder’s direction, he gave up a comfortable position teaching African culture at the University of Michigan to travel and teach African rituals in a more grass roots manner. He currently devotes himself to speaking and, with his wife, Sobonfu, conducting intensive workshops throughout the United States. They live in Oakland, California. 
Stewart Bruce James is Assistant Director, National Operations with the Australian Bureau of Meteorology, he is responsible for the senior management of the Bureau’s Hydrology Unit, National Climate Centre and the National Meteorological and Oceanographic Centre. He was appointed president of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Commission for Hydrology (CHy) in 2004. For the past 10 years, he has been one of two representatives from Australia on the UNESCO International Hydrological Programme (IHP) and chaired the Australian National IHP Network. Mr. Stewart was Australia’s focal point for the International Year of Freshwater.
Chief Jake Swamp (Tekaronianeken) is a founder of the Tree of Peace Society, an international organization promoting peace and conservation. Chief Swamp has traveled the globe planting trees and delivering the Thanksgiving Address to many different cultures, as well as at the United Nations. He was born on the Akwesasne Mohawk Reservation in upstate New York, and now lives in Hogansburg, NY. He is the author of the illustrated book Giving Thanks, A Native American good Morning Message. The book is based on Chief Swamp’s Thanksgiving Address, which is based on an ancient message of peace and deep appreciation of Mother Earth and her inhabitants. 
Ven Omalpe Sobhita Thero is founder in 1993 of the Sri Bodhiraja Foundation, a non-profit charity based in Embilipitiya, Sri Lanka. The Foundation provides residential training for more than 50 Buddhist monks, whose mission is to improve the quality of life and the wellbeing of all people while guiding them towards Enlightenment. About 90% of Sri Lanka’s population is Buddhist. Venerable Omalpe Sobhita Thero, both personally and through the Foundation, has launched national initiatives to address environmental degradation; AIDS prevention; to influence political elections, and expose government concessions to terrorist demands. On more than occasion, he has risked his life by prolonged fasting in protest of Sri Lanka governmental practices, including the payment of tax dollars to appease other Buddhist centers. 
Gail Thomas, Ph.D., is a psychologist and planner of cities, is a former Founder and Director of The Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture. Presently, she serves as President of The Trinity Trust Foundation in Dallas, Texas, whose major focus is to remake the Trinity River Corridor. She is the founder and CEO of “Cities Alive”, and serves as a consultant to cities. For over 20 years she has conducted seminars and conferences on cities and city life in the United States, Canada, and England. Dr. Thomas’ life work has been the study and transformation of cities. She has received numerous awards, including the coveted “Kessler Award.” Over the years she has orchestrated water conferences in the Dallas area that involved water professionals, artists, and authors of international renown.
Dr. Susan Toch has a background in Water Resources Science and Environmental Health that includes a Ph.D. and M.P.H from University of California, Berkeley, an M.A. in Geography/ Environmental Planning from the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. Along with her credentials in Forestry/ Natural Resources Management, she holds additional certifications in Leadership Development and Human Services, in Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease through Louisiana State University Medical School, and the University of Costa Rica, and has trained as a medical assistant in Helicopter disaster relief with the Swiss Air Rescue (REGA), Switzerland. Her sustainable watershed projects and publications, including her recently released book: Water to Drink: Sustaining Watersheds and the People Who Need Them may be found at www.ANaturalResource.com. 
Cynthia Travis is founding President of everyday gandhis®, produced a series of award-winning educational videos with teacher’s guides on child meditation. In 1999 began documenting stories of peacebuilding in regions of conflict, which evolved into the “everyday gandhis”® project, which represents the only media organization dedicated entirely to peace efforts as told by the gandhis. Her Liberian efforts resulted in the historic cooperation amongst and between villages that histrionically resolved issues through armed conflict. This effort resulted in the peaceful sharing of water and water rituals in preparation of the letter for Water Voices from Around The World , and documenting for the first time the inter-tribal water ceremony used in the forgiveness of death by one tribe against another. Due to lack of writing, tribal leaders used their fingerprints to sign the letter presented in this book; for historic documentation purposes - their names were published in place of their finger prints.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu is South Africa’s beloved cleric and Human Rights activist; first South African Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, and primate of the Church of the Province of Southern Africa. He has been married to Leah Nomalizo Tutu since 1955. Awarded many awards and honorary doctorate degrees, and is a renown speaker. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984. He is credited with coining the term “Rainbow Nation” as a metaphor for post-apartheidist South Africa. In 2006 received Light of Truth award by the Dalai Lama. He rose to world fame during the 1980s as an opponent to apartheid. A partial list of books he has authored include; No Future Without Forgiveness; God Has a Dream: A Vision of Hope for Our Time; Believe: The Words and Inspiration of Archbishop Desmond Tutu; An African Prayer Book, and The Rainbow People of God. Archbishop Desmond Tutu states that water is a “gift from God that sustains all life, and for which we should always give thanks.”
Rick Ulfik is Founder/Director of We, The World (http://www.WeTheWorld.org), a non-profit org. with global networks that organizes events for public involvement in creating a peaceful, caring, sustainable world. Advisors and supporters include Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Dr. Jane Goodall, Deepak Chopra, Marianne Williamson, Daniel Ellsberg, Dr. Riane Eisler, Robert Thurman, William Schulz, Celeste Holm, Patch Adams, Hazel Henderson, and about 70 others. Rick is an organizer of 11 Days of Global Unity (www.wetheworld.org/11days), an annual worldwide promotion of peace and sustainability launched by We, The World, that now includes more than 500 events in over 60 countries. He is an accomplished composer and musician who has written, produced, arranged and performed music for TV Networks (ABC, NBC, CBS), the Olympics, and feature films.
Amy Vickers is an engineer, water conservation specialists, and author of the award-winning Handbook of “Water Use and Conservation: Homes, Landscapes, Businesses, Industries, Farms (www.waterplowpress.com). She has been researching water for decades, and is based in Amherst, Massachusetts, USA and personally has a deep appreciation and understanding of wetland ecosystems. She was a contributing author to the World Watch Institute's "State of the World 2004," (W. W. Norton, New York). In addition to publishing numerous professional papers and articles on water conservation measures, trends, and policy, Vickers was author of the federal water efficiency standards for plumbing fixtures adopted by the U.S. Energy Policy Act of 1992. Prior to that, in 1988 she wrote an amendment to the Massachusetts Plumbing Code requiring 1.6 gallon per flush toilets, an initiative that 16 other states followed. Vickers has also contributed to the development of several educational and commercial software programs, including the “Greening of the White House CD-ROM” and the “Green Home CD-ROM.”
Peter Wilderer was awarded the international Stockholm Water Prize in 2003 for research of sustainable water use and sanitation. Professor at Technical University of Munich; Director of the Institute of Advanced Studies on Sustainability funded by the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, and Director of the Institute for Water Quality and Control of Waste Management. He is credited with developing and demonstrating a profoundly holistic vision of sustainable and integrated water and wastewater management. He initiated an international programme on water-related risk management of the Danube River basin, and organized a highly regarded gathering of Natural Resource use in the light of World Religions attended by a spectrum of experts representing a wide variety of disciplines.