Boston Water members, a diverse group 80+ of researchers and practitioners from academia, industry and civil-society, are based in the Greater Boston region, but work across the U.S and around the world to address problems that involve water. Members have the option to be included in this public listing

Leon Awerbuch (IDA Desalination Academy, Leading Edge Technology)
Involved in the desalination industry for more than 35 years. President & Chief Technology Officer, Leading Edge Technologies Ltd. Past President, International Desalination Association (IDA); Co-Chairman of IDA Technical Programs; Dean, IDA Desalination Academy. Consultant to the Desalination Industry. With Bechtel Group for over 30 years involved in R&D, design and. . .Read More »
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Monty Simus (Harvard University)
Founder of Water Politics, a geopolitical advisory firm focused on the scarcity of global freshwater resources.  Currently a Senior Fellow at Harvard focusing on research related to the water-energy-food nexus.Read More »
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Tom Boving (University of Rhode Island)
Dr. Thomas Boving is a Professor at the University of Rhode Island, Kingston with a joint appointment to the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Department of Geosciences.  He received his PhD in Hydrology and Water Resources Management from the University of Arizona, Tucson and a master's degree. . .Read More »
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David Fairman (Consensus Building Institute)
I'm a facilitator of natural resource conflict resolution and collaboration, primarily international, with several water engagements over the past twenty years. Recently did strategic planning for TNC's Great Rivers Partnership, dialogue on India-Pakistan co-management of the Indus basin, and work with Steering Committee for America’s Watershed Initiative.  Currently planning additional work on. . .Read More »
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Auroop R. Ganguly (Northeastern University)
I am interested in understanding climate extremes and water sustainability through data-driven insights and model simulations, and translating to policy. I am fascinated by Big Data challenges in space and time, especially extremes and rare events, and particularly for complex nonlinear dynamical systems. I have prior background in hydrology and. . .Read More »
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Dan Short Gianotti (Boston University)
I'm interested in water and modeling applications.  My research interests range from theory to practice: I've worked on precipitation and its predictability on climate time-scales, land-atmosphere feedbacks to the hydrological cycle, climate variables and their influence on terrestrial biosphere processes, cold-regions hydrology and water quality, and robust water treatment implementations.Read More »
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Shafiqul Islam (Tufts University)
WATER is what I think and do. I work on availability, access and allocation of water within the context of climate challenges, health, and diplomacy. I seek interdisciplinary approaches to create actionable knowledge by blending science, policy, and politics in contextually relevant ways using complexity theory and mutual gains approaches.Read More »
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Scott Landers, P.E. (Odd’s Creek)
I seek challenges at the intersection of finance, natural resources, and societal values where there little or no precedent. I thrive when I am innovating, testing, and iteratively developing solutions to these challenges. One of my aspirations is to eliminate negative externalities within market economies. My current approach is thinking. . .Read More »
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Fatima Mendikulova (Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, Harvard Kennedy School of Government)
As a former resident of Kyrgyzstan, I have first hand knowledge of the water system in Central Asia. I am interested in the relationship between growing water scarcity and tensions among the inhabitants in Ferghana Valley, a unique region now divided up among three nations. Now I am a Research Assistant. . .Read More »
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Jeff Meller (Methane Harvest)
CEO of renewable energy start-up, fund manager, lawyer, teacher in water infrastructure globally. CEO of renewable energy start-up.  Fund manager making private equity and listed company investments in emerging markets.   Lawyer specializing in emerging/frontier market infrastructure (privatization, power, water, highways) representing investors and governments in more than a dozen countries of. . .Read More »
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Sharmila L. Murthy (Suffolk Law / Harvard Kennedy School)
I am interested in understanding the legal and policy barriers to equitable water access and sustainable water management -- questions that sit at the intersection of human rights, poverty, and the environment. Most of my work has focused on the human right to safe drinking water and sanitation, and on. . .Read More »
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Jon Pollak (CUAHSI)
My work at CUAHSI supports research and education in the water science community by enabling data access and publication. I have broader research interests in applying GIS and other tools to environmental hazards and climate change adaptation in order to tell stories of human-environment interactions through data.Read More »
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Ramnath Subbaraman (Brigham and Women’s Hospital / Harvard Medical School)
I am an infectious diseases doctor and public health researcher. For two years, I helped lead field research investigating various aspects of health in a slum settlement in Mumbai, India as part of Partners for Urban Knowledge, Action, and Research (PUKAR), an innovative action-oriented research collective. We have performed in-depth. . .Read More »
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Chi Ho Sham (The Cadmus Group)
Chi Ho Sham has over two decades of consulting experience, mainly for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in the areas of drinking water protection, water quality analysis, and underground injection control.  His research interests include effective source water protection strategies, impacts of wildfires and extreme events on water utilities,. . .Read More »
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Lawrence Susskind (MIT / Consensus Building Institute)
My work focuses on negotiated approaches to resolving water conflicts, and strategies for involving water users and other stakeholders in collaborative adaptive management of water resources at every scale. Geographically, I am working on trans-boundary water disputes in Southern Chile (hydro development disputes), the Middle East (water sharing and investment. . .Read More »
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Bruno Verdini (MIT – DUSP)
My work focuses on U.S. and Mexico negotiations regarding the shared waters of the Colorado River and the shared hydrocarbons resources in the Gulf of Mexico. Resource management decisions about open, evolving, and interconnected water, energy, and environmental networks are complex. When multiple stakeholders from different countries with competing interests and values are involved, the challenges are compounded. The doctoral research. . .Read More »
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Mahdi Zarghami (Tufts University)
My interest field is water resources management with special topic of water governance. As associate professor of the University of Tabriz (Iran) now I am visiting Tufts University. I graduated PhD from Sharif University of Technology, Iran on Water Resources Planning and Management, 2007. The case now I am doing. . .Read More »
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