Neha Khandekar

I am a researcher-practitioner motivated to enhance engagement in the socio-hydrology space across various disciplines to be able to advance the science and practice of water in India. I co-founded the Indian Youth Water Network (https://twitter.com/IYWN_) - a network of like-minded students & early career researchers- practitioners inspired to solve real-world problems in water resources in India. To take my initiative forward, I am co-organizing a series of panel discussions across India (first in this line hosted by IIT-Roorkee -https://ir.iitr.ac.in/NSIH2021/index.php, https://youtu.be/jeCXc2Ilg4I) to begin engagement to develop a position paper on future of philosophy, science, and practice of water in India. Our paper has been selected at the Frontiers of water Journal's special issue by the Delft conference on socio-hydrology, 2021. In the past, I have worked in the capacity of a researcher-practitioner-manager-activist at ATREE, Bengaluru, TERI, New Delhi, and People’s Science Institute, Dehradun. Trained in interdisciplinary water resources management program during my Masters, I have 9 years of work experience engaging within the water resources space across India and South Asia. Specifically around research related to understanding interlinkages between water access and availability-agrarian livelihoods-hydropower-climate change-conflict. I have worked in research assignments at sub-national, national, and South-Asian levels within Upper Ganga and Cauvery basins in India while learning from extensive field visits.

Joined 2022

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