UK-India collaboration
Our Consortium
We are a consortium bringing together highly complementary projects and expertise related to water science and technology in the Indian sub-continent. We have connected through multiple Indo-UK collaborations as supported by the Natural Environment Research Council, the Department of Science & Technology and the Leverhulme Trust. We represent 11 institutions and our collaborative research to date has involved more than 30 scientists in India and the UK. More details of our projects can be found below.
Water Quality TEST
Water Quality – TEST (Technology Enabled Sensing and Treatment of water) is an Indo-UK Water Quality project funded by
DST-Newton Bhabha-NERC-EPSRC Indo-UK Water Quality Programme NE/R003106/1 and DST/TM/INDO-UK/2K17/30. Water Quality – TEST involves the development, deployment and implementation of UK sensing and treatment technologies in India and also the subsequent development of Indian inspired sensors and treatment approaches in the UK. This project is co-led by the University of the West of England (UWE), Bristol (UK) and the Bose Institute, Kolkata (India), with a consortia of UK technology companies (Chelsea Technologies, Centrego & Portsmouth Aqua), Indian academic institutes (Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata & Institute of Life Sciences Bhubaneswar) and both UK and Indian NGOs (Frank Water & Bala Vikasa). Please follow the project on Facebook (@wqTEST) or Twitter (@WaterQualityTE2).
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Members associated with the Water Quality – TEST team led and conducted the sampling of the Lower Ganga segment (from Begusarai, Bihar to Noorpur, West Bengal) in the 2019 coordinated longitudinal survey of the Ganga. Fieldwork in this segment was led by the University of the West of England (UWE), Bristol, with the University of Birmingham. Water Quality – TEST members were also involved in the fieldwork conducted on the Upper Ganga segment (from Devprayag, Uttarakhand to Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh), which was led by the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology UK. The following people associated with Water Quality – TEST have been involved with Team SAPTANADI activities.
Post-doctoral Research Associate
Department of Applied Sciences
University of the West of England (UWE), Bristol, UK
Professor of Health and Environment
Department of Applied Sciences
University of the West of England (UWE), Bristol, UK
Associate Professor of Molecular Life Sciences
Department of Applied Sciences
University of the West of England (UWE), Bristol, UK
Tapan Dutta
Professor of Microbiology
Department of Microbiology
Bose Institute, Kolkata, India
Rinita Dhar
PhD Student
Department of Microbiology
Bose Institute, Kolkata, India
Eva Perrin
PhD Student
Department of Applied Sciences
University of the West of England (UWE), Bristol, UK
Post-doctoral Research Associate
Department of Applied Sciences
University of the West of England (UWE), Bristol, UK
John Attridge
Technical Director
Chelsea Technologies Ltd., Surrey, UK
James Kirkbride
Senior Scientist
Chelsea Technologies Ltd., Surrey, UK
FAR-GANGA
FAR-GANGA (Future Secular Changes & Remediation of Groundwater Arsenic in the Ganga River Basin) is an Indo-UK Water Quality project funded by DST-Newton Bhabha-NERC-EPSRC Indo-UK Water Quality Programme NE/R003386/1 and DST/TM/INDO-UK/2K17/55(C) & 55(G). FAR-GANGA is a partnership between eight institutions: The University of Manchester (UK), National Institute of Hydrology (India), Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (India), British Geological Survey (UK), Indian Institute of Technolgy Kharagpur (India), University of Salford (UK), University of Birmingham (UK) and Mahavir Cancer Sansthan (India). Please see www.farganga.org for further details.
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Members associated with the FAR-GANGA team led and conducted the sampling of the Middle Ganga segment (from Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh to Begusarai, Bihar) in the 2019 coordinated longitudinal survey of the Ganga. Fieldwork in this segment was led by the University of Manchester, with Mahavir Cancer Sansthan, National Institute of Hydrology and University of Birmingham. Collaborators at the British Geological Survey and University of Lincoln contribute expertise on the analysis and interpretation of geochemical trends. The following people associated with FAR-GANGA have been involved with Team SAPTANADI activities (note this is only selected members of the FAR-GANGA team).
Professor of Environmental Geochemistry
Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences
The University of Manchester
Manchester, UK
Biswajit Chakravorty
National Institute of Hydrology
Patna, India
Ashok Ghosh
Head of Research Department
Mahavir Cancer Sansthan
Patna, India
Professor of Ecohydrology & Biogeochemistry
School of Geography, Earth & Environmental Sciences
University of Birmingham
Birmingham, UK
Dame Kathleen Ollerenshaw Fellow
Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences
The University of Manchester
Manchester, UK
Professor
Groundwater Processes Team Lead
British Geological Survey
Wallingford, UK
Arun Kumar
Senior Scientist
Mahavir Cancer Sansthan
Patna, India
Rupa Kumari
Junior Research Fellow
Department of Research
Mahavir Cancer Sansthan
Patna, India
Siddhu Kumar
Field Assistant
Department of Research
Mahavir Cancer Santhan
Patna, India
Post Doctoral Research Associate
School of Geography, Earth & Environmental Sciences
University of Birmingham
Birmingham, UK
Senior Lecturer in Physical Geography
School of Geography
University of Lincoln
Lincoln, UK
Sumant Kumar
National Institute of Hydrology
Roorkee, India
Aman Gaurav
Field Assistant
Department of Research
Mahavir Cancer Sansthan
Patna, India
Ben Howard
PhD Student
Department of XXX
University of Birmingham
SUNRISE
Sustainable Use of Natural Resources to Improve Human Health and Support Economic Development (SUNRISE) (NE/R000131/1)
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Members associated with the SUNRISE team led and conducted the sampling of the Upper Ganga segment (from Devprayag, Uttarakhand to Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh) in the 2019 coordinated longitudinal survey of the Ganga. Fieldwork in this segment was led by the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology UK, with the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee and the University of the West of England (UWE), Bristol, UK. The following people associated with SUNRISE have been involved with Team SAPTANADI activities.
Group Leader
River Water Quality & Ecology
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Wallingford, UK
Dan Read
Group Leader
Molecular Ecology
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Wallingford, UK
Himanshu Joshi
Professor
Department of Hydrology
Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Uttarakhand, India
Moushoumi Hazra
Research Fellow
Department of Hydrology
Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Uttarakhand, India
David Nicholls
Laboratory and Field Technician
River Water Quality & Ecology
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Wallingford, UK
Linda Armstrong
Analytical Chemist
River Water Quality & Ecology
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Wallingford, UK
100 Plastic Rivers Team
100 Plastic Rivers - a global investigation
Investigating microplastic transport, fate and ecotoxicological impacts in freshwater ecosystems to assess global risk from microplastic impacts on environmental and public health.
Holly Nel
Post-doctoral Research Associate
School of Geography, Earth & Environmental Sciences
University of Birmingham
Birmingham, UK
Post-doctoral Research Associate
School of Geography, Earth & Environmental Sciences
University of Birmingham
Birmingham, UK
Professor of Ecohydrology & Biogeochemistry
School of Geography, Earth & Environmental Sciences
University of Birmingham
Birmingham, UK
IGI - Birmingham
The Institute for Global Innovation (IGI) at the University of Birmingham aims to inspire, support and deliver world-leading, multidisciplinary research that addresses the world's most pressing challenges.
Our challenge themes include: Water Challenges, Resilient Cities, Gender Inequality, Environmental Pollution Solutions, Clean Air and Confronting Antimicrobial Resistance
Professor of Hydrology
School of Geography, Earth & Environmental Sciences
University of Birmingham
Birmingham, UK
Professor of Ecohydrology & Biogeochemistry
School of Geography, Earth & Environmental Sciences
University of Birmingham
Birmingham, UK