Dr Basant Yadav is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Water Resources Development and Management, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee. He is an Agricultural Engineer by background and attained a Master’s degree (M. Tech) from the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee in Hydrology. He was awarded the prestigious DAAD fellowship for his Master’s dissertation at the Technical University Stuttgart, Germany. He received his Doctorate degree from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, studying water quantity and quality modelling using soft computing techniques. He did his early postdoctoral work at IIT Roorkee and the Indian Institute of Science Bangalore. Later, Dr Basant moved to Cranfield University (UK) as a research fellow to work on rainwater harvesting systems and their impact on groundwater quantity and quality and also worked on the new rainwater harvesting technologies like Sand Dams in Kenya. Dr Basant was awarded the “Rien van Genuchten Early-Career Award of Porous Media for a Green World” by the International Society for Porous Media (InterPore) for his work in the area of porous media.