Vishwanath S

Areas of Interest & Expertise

  • The Socio-Ecological process of Water
  • Wastewater Management

Biography

Vishwanath is a visiting faculty with the School of Development at Azim Premji University. He teaches courses on water conservation, sustainable groundwater management, water reuse and recycling.

He is a Civil Engineer and Urban Regional Planner by training. He has 34 years of experience in the water and sanitation sector. He has designed and implemented many water, wastewater, rainwater harvesting and ecological sanitation systems. 

He has also worked on policy teams for the writing of the State Water Policy, Rainwater Harvesting Policy and Bylaws for Bengaluru city, Wastewater Reuse Policy for Karnataka. He was also an adviser for the National Wastewater Policy and Secretary General of the International Rainwater Catchments Systems Association. 

He wrote a weekly column on water called Waterwise for 12 years in The Hindu. His current interests include the integration of livelihoods aspects with rainwater harvesting, wastewater reuse and groundwater recharge.