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I have more than 30 years experience as a water resource engineer, researcher, educator and modeller in Canada, United States and India. My work has primarily focussed on agricultural water management through investigation of fundamental process of soil erosion, hydrology, irrigation and drainage, irrigation with saline water, source water protection, modelling and management of non-point source pollution, as evident by the publications in Asia, Europe and North America. Several graduate students from Asia, Africa, Far East and Middle East have worked on soil and water management problems related to their countries under my supervision.

In addition, I have provided technical assistance to extension agents, government officials in planning, design, development, management and evaluation of source water protection schemes, water quality monitoring projects, irrigation and drainage systems, both surface and sub-surface drainage, soil erosion control practices and structures, and water harvesting. I have been involved in the development and evaluation of models for source water protection and non-point source pollution management, nomographs and computer software for management of water quantity and quality at the farm as well as watershed scale.

For seven years I have the experience of managing graduate grogram, with more than 100 graduate students, in biological, environmental, engineering systems and computing and water resources engineering.

My present research activities include development of watershed-based tools to help quantify the health status of water bodies in rural watersheds, and also economically feasible, environmentally sustainable and socially acceptable strategies to improve their status by identifying the source of pollution and their relative contribution to the impairment of water quality. This approach provides a linkage between needs for nutrient management and watershed-based source water protection. I am also involved in the development of tools for the site specific design of vegetative strips to improve stream water quality in rural and urban environment.